Jude
It's clear he is in some sort of pain, but Jude unfortunately has nothing to help, which only makes him feel worse. Not wanting to point it out just to be incapable of fixing it, Jude quickly lays down and links his hands over his stomach, ignoring the squeamish feeling beneath his palms. The stars are captivating, far clearer than Torchline which often had clouds and bonfire smoke to obscure them.
Tal doesn't turn his face the way Jude does, but he doesn't mind, taking the opportunity to examine how the moonlight falls on the young man's features. "I'm sorry," he whispers, voice solemn and sad. His mother being missing is harder than he can bear sometimes, he wouldn't know how to go on if she was dead. If all his parents were dead. He marvels at how sad life can be, how prevalent - Sohalia had suffered much the same fate. "Do you still miss them? What were their names?" He'd asked Sohalia similar questions about Auden, hoping to carry that information and keep her mentor alive in a mind other than her own.
"Oh! Um, Torchline. My dad is a councilman there. Have you ever been there? I've never been to Halo." Mostly restricted to his two home regions and the neighboring Wilds, lest his parents lose their minds over him straying too far from home. It's not an unfounded fear given his family's strange predilection for disappearing acts, but Jude sometimes wishes he could travel a little further.
Tal doesn't turn his face the way Jude does, but he doesn't mind, taking the opportunity to examine how the moonlight falls on the young man's features. "I'm sorry," he whispers, voice solemn and sad. His mother being missing is harder than he can bear sometimes, he wouldn't know how to go on if she was dead. If all his parents were dead. He marvels at how sad life can be, how prevalent - Sohalia had suffered much the same fate. "Do you still miss them? What were their names?" He'd asked Sohalia similar questions about Auden, hoping to carry that information and keep her mentor alive in a mind other than her own.
"Oh! Um, Torchline. My dad is a councilman there. Have you ever been there? I've never been to Halo." Mostly restricted to his two home regions and the neighboring Wilds, lest his parents lose their minds over him straying too far from home. It's not an unfounded fear given his family's strange predilection for disappearing acts, but Jude sometimes wishes he could travel a little further.
stop trying to keep this alive
you're pointing at stars in the sky that already died
you're pointing at stars in the sky that already died
