August 25, 2018, 05:30 PM
He remained stoic when the other curled his lips, expecting the next words to be spat at him as a snake would venom. Instead? It appeared to be reluctant - at best, indifferent - acceptance, but acceptance nonetheless. Æthelwulf couldn't help but the spare the smallest of smirks. It was a low point, wasn't it? How little pride he had to hold if the words "I guess you can stay" sounded like anything less than an insult.
Pathetic.
Fortunately, he'd come to this conclusion many years prior, and the renewed realization didn't bother him too terribly.
His eyes followed the stranger as they neared a tree before his allowed his gaze to climb the weathered bark. It'd only provide the man more of same, and still he seemed interested. It was surely an idle action, if a conscious one at all, but Wulf couldn't help to feel a bitter kinship to the bleak repetition.
"What are you, then, if not good company?"
Pathetic.
Fortunately, he'd come to this conclusion many years prior, and the renewed realization didn't bother him too terribly.
His eyes followed the stranger as they neared a tree before his allowed his gaze to climb the weathered bark. It'd only provide the man more of same, and still he seemed interested. It was surely an idle action, if a conscious one at all, but Wulf couldn't help to feel a bitter kinship to the bleak repetition.
"What are you, then, if not good company?"
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water in my lungs - by Redshank - August 18, 2018, 02:39 AM
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