i'm a thinker, not a talker
Casimir doesn’t realize Thorn is asleep until soft exhales of breath leave his mouth at a level, even rate, almost snoring as the air rattled through his throat. Casimir is too busy freaking out and panicking to notice, but once he does, it inspires even less of an ability to calm down. His heart begins to race so loud he thinks Thorn must be able to hear it and will wake up, which causes his heart to race even more, on and on until the loop of panic closes so tightly his brain just completely jumps ship and fills itself with the white noise of nothing in particular.
To add salt in the gaping and bloody wound in chest, the moment before Casimir realized Thorn was using his body as pillow, he had determined to gently extract himself from the room and excuse himself. He had reasoned Thorn was too out of his right mind to want Casimir’s company, especially after that cutting rebuke from earlier, and it was really the only correct thing to do to excuse himself and return when Thorn was in his right mind (or maybe never). When the man goes completely limp under him, though, Casimir freezes so utterly and completely one could have mistaken him for a statue.
Is Thorn insane? Or just stupid? Has he forgotten what Casimir did to him the last time he had touched the bartender gently? Or has his mission with the unicorn simply given him a death wish? This is very bad. This is very bad. Casimir is going to give him nightmares just by his very presence, and Thorn would wake up with blood under his fingernails without knowing why, and—
Thorn shifts on his shoulder, just slightly, and Casimir holds his breath. He feels like a hapless human trapped by a dozing cat on his lap, unable to move out of fear of disturbance. When Thorn arises, hair sticking even further at odd ends than it had before his catnap, eyes slightly bleary and smile sweet, Casimir cannot physically look at him.
”Go shower,” He grunts and it’s the first words he’s said to the man since That Night and he’s already kicking himself for it, but if Thorn doesn’t take his body off of Casimir’s soon, he cannot be held for whatever destructive decisions he makes as a result.
To add salt in the gaping and bloody wound in chest, the moment before Casimir realized Thorn was using his body as pillow, he had determined to gently extract himself from the room and excuse himself. He had reasoned Thorn was too out of his right mind to want Casimir’s company, especially after that cutting rebuke from earlier, and it was really the only correct thing to do to excuse himself and return when Thorn was in his right mind (or maybe never). When the man goes completely limp under him, though, Casimir freezes so utterly and completely one could have mistaken him for a statue.
Is Thorn insane? Or just stupid? Has he forgotten what Casimir did to him the last time he had touched the bartender gently? Or has his mission with the unicorn simply given him a death wish? This is very bad. This is very bad. Casimir is going to give him nightmares just by his very presence, and Thorn would wake up with blood under his fingernails without knowing why, and—
Thorn shifts on his shoulder, just slightly, and Casimir holds his breath. He feels like a hapless human trapped by a dozing cat on his lap, unable to move out of fear of disturbance. When Thorn arises, hair sticking even further at odd ends than it had before his catnap, eyes slightly bleary and smile sweet, Casimir cannot physically look at him.
”Go shower,” He grunts and it’s the first words he’s said to the man since That Night and he’s already kicking himself for it, but if Thorn doesn’t take his body off of Casimir’s soon, he cannot be held for whatever destructive decisions he makes as a result.
Casimir
i've no one to talk to, anyway
