Starglow Basin We don't wanna go home

There’s no comfort from him. She didn’t expect it but still feels lonelier, afterwards, with only a grinning response. Not yet, but soon. She’s afraid to be here, afraid to be alone, afraid to leave and afraid to stay. On the green she hadn’t been afraid of anything. But now she’s too afraid of it too, it and the memories it might bring.

She can’t pull it together here and it’s suddenly too much, having him there with her. She needs something from him that she at least knows better than to ask for.

Tierra gets to her feet and abruptly leaves, limping out of the shared space and instead finding a corner of her own to curl up in while she gives over to the fear. Maybe eventually she’ll be able to smile in the face of it the way he does. Not right now and likely not any day soon.