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Richard Dickerson ([personal profile] nonvenomous) wrote 2021-12-18 08:44 am (UTC)

He’s quiet again, the rasp of his breath mingling with the rustle of his bedding when he stretches against it.

It’s a question that doesn’t bear answering, really, an impulse towards dry honesty -- the list of things that don’t concern him would be substantially shorter -- lifted up and let off in a huff of salt, the ghost of a scoff.

“I’m just tired,” he tells her. Tired and unhappy.

“I'll be alright.”

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