lost in time and space (OPEN)

KORBIN

But what does it take to break you, to awake you?
To make you bow and spit it out?

"I don't know," he replied, with perfect honesty. Korbin didn't plan. Didn't know what he wanted, beyond the next drink. Someonenhad convinced him to live and so he was alive, but everything else was just a haze. A blur, where the only solid fact was the absence of his sister, the one who had given him purpose and motivation.

The idea of resuming the work under Loren didn't make him feel anything, really. Apathy, slight reluctance. Same as with everything else. His ownership of the bar was so far in name only, the management left to more functioning people. For now, he merely watched. Tried to get used to the burn of loneliness and pain... but it wasn't the kind of feeling you carried easily.

As the topic turned towards luxere, Korbin pointed out a set of antlers on the opposite wall. Slightly different in structure from the animals Tala should be used to, similar but not the same. "They're magical," he told her, like he was talking about the weather. "The antlers glow, and the light wards off darkness. Dark magic, dark creatures... they're our main foodsource here."

The Grounders had issues with that, he knew, which was faintly amusing to Korbin.

Doesn't matter if I hate you or embrace you
Nothing makes you turn around