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Characters: dungenessmaster and justiceisdue
Location: Karkat’s apartment
Rating: PG-Karkat
Time: December 23rd
Description: Karkat and Selendis are still recovering from the battle in Linz, among other things, and not all the wounds are physical.
Despite the freezing weather, Selendis still spent a lot of time up on the roof. It took a few hours before the cold really started to get to her, and she spent that time in a sort of disquieted meditation. She actually did the same thing inside, but up here it was more familiar and open, and gave her partner the privacy he always wanted. Even if he never said anything or complained about her taking up half the room, she still felt it necessary to leave him be for awhile. Her usual routine was cut short that morning when the snow started, accumulating on her bare skin until she finally noticed it. After a brief conversation with Roy, she shook most of it off before it started to soak into the light cloth she was wearing. It would eventually start to irritate her wounds as well, so she decided it was best to spend the rest of the day indoors.
Everyone else took the stairs up to the roof, but for her it was a simple matter of swinging her legs over the edge and dropping down onto the balcony. She stepped over her armor, which she had left neatly stacked outside and as out of the way as possible. She recognized the irony in trying to remove her presence from Karkat’s attention if it would help him heal, considering the point of their partnership was to work together. They’d already failed to do so mentally and emotionally, so why not physically as well? She hesitated a moment before opening the door, wishing she knew how to fix… everything. In spite of their differences they had come so far together, and achieved so much. Whatever happened to him changed him, no doubt, and it was almost as if BREW had returned a Karkat Vantas that was incompatible with her.
That thought made her uneasy, and not just for the practical reason of losing her weapon. The disconnect between herself and those she fought with was getting to be too much, though she had purposely avoided Tassadar upon returning. There was no comfort in the Khala, and she couldn’t quite bear to look him in the eye after letting the Madness overpower her. Karkat was even further away, wrapped up in his own protective shell to keep everyone and anyone out, aside from what she could get from their resonation. Selendis was not as adaptable as she thought she was, and she thought it was really starting to show. If she couldn’t change, then she’d wind up making the same sort of mistakes that cost her people their homeworld.
Selendis finally made her way inside, carefully pulling the sliding door shut behind her. For something as big as she was, she hardly made a sound as she knelt down in the middle of the floor in her usual meditation posture.
Location: Karkat’s apartment
Rating: PG-Karkat
Time: December 23rd
Description: Karkat and Selendis are still recovering from the battle in Linz, among other things, and not all the wounds are physical.
Despite the freezing weather, Selendis still spent a lot of time up on the roof. It took a few hours before the cold really started to get to her, and she spent that time in a sort of disquieted meditation. She actually did the same thing inside, but up here it was more familiar and open, and gave her partner the privacy he always wanted. Even if he never said anything or complained about her taking up half the room, she still felt it necessary to leave him be for awhile. Her usual routine was cut short that morning when the snow started, accumulating on her bare skin until she finally noticed it. After a brief conversation with Roy, she shook most of it off before it started to soak into the light cloth she was wearing. It would eventually start to irritate her wounds as well, so she decided it was best to spend the rest of the day indoors.
Everyone else took the stairs up to the roof, but for her it was a simple matter of swinging her legs over the edge and dropping down onto the balcony. She stepped over her armor, which she had left neatly stacked outside and as out of the way as possible. She recognized the irony in trying to remove her presence from Karkat’s attention if it would help him heal, considering the point of their partnership was to work together. They’d already failed to do so mentally and emotionally, so why not physically as well? She hesitated a moment before opening the door, wishing she knew how to fix… everything. In spite of their differences they had come so far together, and achieved so much. Whatever happened to him changed him, no doubt, and it was almost as if BREW had returned a Karkat Vantas that was incompatible with her.
That thought made her uneasy, and not just for the practical reason of losing her weapon. The disconnect between herself and those she fought with was getting to be too much, though she had purposely avoided Tassadar upon returning. There was no comfort in the Khala, and she couldn’t quite bear to look him in the eye after letting the Madness overpower her. Karkat was even further away, wrapped up in his own protective shell to keep everyone and anyone out, aside from what she could get from their resonation. Selendis was not as adaptable as she thought she was, and she thought it was really starting to show. If she couldn’t change, then she’d wind up making the same sort of mistakes that cost her people their homeworld.
Selendis finally made her way inside, carefully pulling the sliding door shut behind her. For something as big as she was, she hardly made a sound as she knelt down in the middle of the floor in her usual meditation posture.