a drastic change in appearancetaennynAugust 26 2008, 20:48:55 UTC
The engineer--Ilya, she reminded herself--had gone to huddle next to her fire, shivering as much from the aftermath of making the crossing as the crossing itself. But the other . . .
She'd seen him without the coat--sometimes for extended periods, when he didn't need to stand out. She'd even see him without the eyepatch, noted in her files the way the skin around the normally covered eye looked thinner and softer and he worked on the thing.
She'd never seen him like this, barefoot, coatless, patchless and snarling, his hair a tangled cloud around his head as he stalked through her belly shivering.
She closed off the areas they were unlikely to use until they found a free-stable, somewhere far from here, and gently turned up the heat, increasing the attention she was paying to her trails as she did. He didn't acknowledge the gesture, but his teeth gradually stopped chattering.
She couldn't decide what she thought of him like this, and tagged the entire hour to go back over later. She disliked the uncertainty.
She'd seen him without the coat--sometimes for extended periods, when he didn't need to stand out. She'd even see him without the eyepatch, noted in her files the way the skin around the normally covered eye looked thinner and softer and he worked on the thing.
She'd never seen him like this, barefoot, coatless, patchless and snarling, his hair a tangled cloud around his head as he stalked through her belly shivering.
She closed off the areas they were unlikely to use until they found a free-stable, somewhere far from here, and gently turned up the heat, increasing the attention she was paying to her trails as she did. He didn't acknowledge the gesture, but his teeth gradually stopped chattering.
She couldn't decide what she thought of him like this, and tagged the entire hour to go back over later. She disliked the uncertainty.
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Would this be after they broke out of jail? (the one time you've posted about, at least...)
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