Broken Boulder with everything falling down around me, i'd like to believe

alarian needn't have worried; delight looks miserable too, never good at concealing his darkest turmoils as they wash over him. does he have a right to be sad? no, not really, but that's never stopped him, and the sad gives way to numbness and -- well. he prefers the sad, so he'll hold onto it a little bit. milk it.

when he catches wind of ali's approach he tries to smooth his features out the best he can, adopting a cool, not quite together expression. alarian's face matches how he feels and a wave of comforting sympathy rises in him. if nothing else, it is nice to be sad with someone you like, he thinks, wagging his tail in half-hearted greeting. "what's up?"