[For a moment, he doesn't say anything at all. He tips his head back to watch the window, to glimpse the sliver sky there, maybe the last piece of it he'll ever see. Maybe Justice gave up on him. Or maybe Anders has just warped him further, with despair now instead of anger.
He crosses the remaining distance and sits cross-legged in front of Fenris. The floor has seen better days, and not much cleaning in recent months, but that's typical. Better now to get used to it.]
He didn't use me. [He would have sounded angry before. Now he just sounds weary.] We wanted the same things. My choices were my own.
[He doesn't meet Fenris' eye when he says this; the nice thing about being a healer, sometimes. There's usually something to be used as a convenient distraction. He turns to look at the light beneath the door, watching intently for shadows crossing beneath it. Practiced. Some things you never really forget.
He was prepared for the consequences of what he did, whatever those may have been. He just wasn't prepared to deal with them like this.]
And he isn't gone. [He reaches but this time doesn't touch, indicating where Fenris has wrapped his arm.] Let me see.
shhhh you are a peach
He crosses the remaining distance and sits cross-legged in front of Fenris. The floor has seen better days, and not much cleaning in recent months, but that's typical. Better now to get used to it.]
He didn't use me. [He would have sounded angry before. Now he just sounds weary.] We wanted the same things. My choices were my own.
[He doesn't meet Fenris' eye when he says this; the nice thing about being a healer, sometimes. There's usually something to be used as a convenient distraction. He turns to look at the light beneath the door, watching intently for shadows crossing beneath it. Practiced. Some things you never really forget.
He was prepared for the consequences of what he did, whatever those may have been. He just wasn't prepared to deal with them like this.]
And he isn't gone. [He reaches but this time doesn't touch, indicating where Fenris has wrapped his arm.] Let me see.