Broken Boulder peel back your skin and try to forget how it feels

forward-dated to tomorrow (the 17th) just after this thread; paging @Delight & @Ulf since I owe yall a thread that I totally didn't forget about & this is a good opportunity

Lily was gone. He had never thought— well, ha. It didn't matter what he thought, did it? She had left. Alarian felt oddly empty; it was a different feeling than when Lennon had disappeared. Colder, somehow, to have watched her walk away. Wasn't closure supposed to feel better?
He needed to find Delight. The thought of facing Eris right now was too much— surely she would blame him, be furious with him for driving away their friend. And who else could he talk to about it? But Queenie had just given birth; Alarian was certain he would be spending time with her and the children. So he waited, and he paced anxiously until he could catch Delight alone. However long that took.