Bone-digger, Bone-digger, dogs in the moonlight
[After dark, Tuesday October 6th, Day 128]
[The woods outside town]
Two days, mostly spent sleeping the manor I once called home. Anushka presents me with rabbits whenever I wake. It reminds me oddly of how I tried to care for her after I broke her body...and it occurs to me at one point that she's doing a better job of it than I did. But then, this body has a lower standard of care than hers did. Whatever the case, I'm healing steadily, most of my time spent curled in her bed. Sometimes she joins me, though there is no sex, at least not yet. It's nice having her there, even if we aren't fucking. I've grown used to the feeling of her body against mine.
Come today, I am restless. My spine has healed well enough that I trust it to hold up during a walk, even if I think it will be a few more days before I go seeking that room at the inn. It's been too long, and I am restless. No hunting, I tell Anushka, no drifting into town. Just a walk. Just to clear my head and shake off some of the cabin fever I've felt brewing. Just a walk.
The woods are quiet, the last crickets staving off the frost sing in the grass, nightbirds call in the bushes. They know they have no cause to fear me tonight. My spine is strong enough for walking, but I'm not about to test it on a run. I'm here to walk, not to hunt. Just to walk, to let the night winds wash over me and listen to the sounds of its denizens. To bathe in the soft warmth of what worship they are capable of before I go home to rest.
Just to walk.
[OPEN to Iblis]
[The woods outside town]
Two days, mostly spent sleeping the manor I once called home. Anushka presents me with rabbits whenever I wake. It reminds me oddly of how I tried to care for her after I broke her body...and it occurs to me at one point that she's doing a better job of it than I did. But then, this body has a lower standard of care than hers did. Whatever the case, I'm healing steadily, most of my time spent curled in her bed. Sometimes she joins me, though there is no sex, at least not yet. It's nice having her there, even if we aren't fucking. I've grown used to the feeling of her body against mine.
Come today, I am restless. My spine has healed well enough that I trust it to hold up during a walk, even if I think it will be a few more days before I go seeking that room at the inn. It's been too long, and I am restless. No hunting, I tell Anushka, no drifting into town. Just a walk. Just to clear my head and shake off some of the cabin fever I've felt brewing. Just a walk.
The woods are quiet, the last crickets staving off the frost sing in the grass, nightbirds call in the bushes. They know they have no cause to fear me tonight. My spine is strong enough for walking, but I'm not about to test it on a run. I'm here to walk, not to hunt. Just to walk, to let the night winds wash over me and listen to the sounds of its denizens. To bathe in the soft warmth of what worship they are capable of before I go home to rest.
Just to walk.
[OPEN to Iblis]