end of the line.

[decentscoundrel]

Pyetr doesn't even really know where he's going -- which is probably why he's got this far; Chernevog generally lets him be, except when he tries to think how to make the bastard let him be -- he's mostly given that up. It doesn't get rid of the sick feeling in the pit of his stomach, or the way everything seems a little tarnished, a little less

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[inglewoodblues]

Ragnelle is in the house, but she comes down the front steps when he touches the gate--it's been dead for a while, but it still says something to her, and she comes down and out. Her skirts are dark now, deep forest blue, and she moves slowly because the cold is making her blood slow, but she comes to him.

"Mary, thou shouldst not be without now. Come in." She opens the gate and offers him her hands.

[decentscoundrel]

"I--" He's almost too dizzy to stand, his heart going like mad, but he reaches for her hands as though he's drowning.

[inglewoodblues]

She takes him and pulls him close, against her warm, thick, firm body, pressing her strength into him.

[decentscoundrel]

Pyetr clings to her like a child, Pyetr who never knew a mother, dazed and for once absolutely trusting. He's past speaking; it's all he can do to stay conscious and not fall on her.