The animal features are a bitch. Her tail twitches and her eyes dilate way too easily, letting every little fluctuation in her mood be broadcast to anyone with eyes.
Annoying. But at least she's not the only poor sod dealing with it.
Her gaze travels upwards, head tipping back and away from Red Wine's face for a moment. Whether intentional or not, it allows him a touch of privacy as he speaks. So people have left, huh? It hurt to realise Kaede wasn't around, but not as much as the ache for home she feels every day.
Not because of home being any good, but simply because of who is trapped there. She likes people here, many of them, but none of them are as easy to slip into working with as Ainsworth was. None of them are her brother, that piece of her heart always lodged with him even when they can't talk or when they're at each other's throats for stupid little things that wouldn't matter five minutes after hanging up the phone.
She can't imagine what it's like to be centuries old, would never want to imagine, but making friends is an art that hasn't been easy in years, and only got worse the older and busier she got.
So maybe, if that were to continue, she could imagine it being impossible.
"Easier to put yourself where there's no chance of being hurt." Being alone sucks, and even if only in the most practical of terms, Kate doesn't believe people were made for it. There's a reason humanity came together in tribes and villages, towns and cities. Because no one person has all the skills they need to survive alone, without any contact with the rest of humankind. But losing people, feeling that grief again...
That sucks more. So it's easier to deal with the ache of being alone than to let yourself think you're getting better, that life is getting better, and watch it be snatched away.
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Annoying. But at least she's not the only poor sod dealing with it.
Her gaze travels upwards, head tipping back and away from Red Wine's face for a moment. Whether intentional or not, it allows him a touch of privacy as he speaks. So people have left, huh? It hurt to realise Kaede wasn't around, but not as much as the ache for home she feels every day.
Not because of home being any good, but simply because of who is trapped there. She likes people here, many of them, but none of them are as easy to slip into working with as Ainsworth was. None of them are her brother, that piece of her heart always lodged with him even when they can't talk or when they're at each other's throats for stupid little things that wouldn't matter five minutes after hanging up the phone.
She can't imagine what it's like to be centuries old, would never want to imagine, but making friends is an art that hasn't been easy in years, and only got worse the older and busier she got.
So maybe, if that were to continue, she could imagine it being impossible.
"Easier to put yourself where there's no chance of being hurt." Being alone sucks, and even if only in the most practical of terms, Kate doesn't believe people were made for it. There's a reason humanity came together in tribes and villages, towns and cities. Because no one person has all the skills they need to survive alone, without any contact with the rest of humankind. But losing people, feeling that grief again...
That sucks more. So it's easier to deal with the ache of being alone than to let yourself think you're getting better, that life is getting better, and watch it be snatched away.