Neverwinter Forest Gucci Mane (‘06)

yeah. another heavy breath, and mathieu closed his eyes tight. he didn't want mal to think of him as weak — he's not weak, y'know? — but talking about this, having to explain his relatively small upset, it made hiding his emotions more difficult. being without yves wasn't difficult by itself; the trauma came from repeated absences, everyone who he'd ever cared about leaving one after the other.

mathieu looked at mal, explaining: this place is really cool, and i wanted my brother to see. he'd left in the night, hoping to be back before he was missed. my grandfather told me he'd left, that...it had been a while. but he didn't come to find me. was he okay? not knowing whether yves was healthy and alive, or, well, the opposite had been the main source of matty's anguish.

i don't get it. he shook his head and lifted a paw to wipe his eye, not prepared for mal to see him so upset.