Blackfeather Woods the war at home

The ache in his face isn't so bad. Its been a few days since the incident where the orbiting ghost intervened his two friends' battle, and the more time spent lounging in the comfort of the drugs really did help him. There were occasions where he'd be more lucid and he'd swear Maegi was tending to him; he could hear the drone of the tide cresting the beach, hear the call of gulls instead of the ravens in the trees, and he would sleep. In reality she was not here at all — had not been here since his intervention of the scuffle — and all of that, the sea and the sounds and the familiarity that resembled Undersea, it was all a dream.

He was awake now and much more confused. His mind was drifting through the fog of the poppies, and it had become so hard to tell reality apart from his dreams... So when the stranger slipped in to the cave and found him, spoke to him, was stuck in a self-imposed confinement with him, Titmouse wasn't really aware. He heard their voice but it was like — well, like being under water. Or like putting your ear against the small-end of a glass and trying to listen through a closed door. He wasn't sure if his ears were working, or maybe he just didn't want them to work. The voice wasn't familiar and he got that far before the movement of the stranger drew his eye.

It should've hurt to turn his head. It was more like - that throbbing of his bloody, raw cheekbone was sharp enough that it kept him from drifting too far from the present moment, it rooted him. His good eye fixed on the stranger's silhouette in the dark and lazily traced the contours of their face; in the dark her hazel eyes looked more blue, her buttery coat looked greycast. He couldn't see the usual scars that indicated it would be Maegi but since she was already on his mind, that's who the stranger became.

Titmouse watched her for a moment, speechless (at least for a few moments), and then drawled in his mess of a voice (dulled as it was by the drugs), Hmm, you.. You godt preddy. Hhh-ou you do det?