to sink into a good book

HENRY

I was waiting for something extraordinary
but as the years wasted on...

Henry hesitated to drink his tea yet, feeling that it was still pretty hot. He looked over and, to his surprise, Samuel had already begun to drink his. Henry raised his eyebrows in surprise, watching as he made no indication of getting burnt. "You really can't feel pain, can you?" he asked abruptly, eyes widened. Henry's knowedge of the Ascended was shaky since he wasn't really close with any of them, or anyone as of late, what with much of his time focused on the work he had to do. He rarely witnessed them do things like this, so it was a little bit shocking.

Heny's thoughts lingered on Samuel's queries, shrugging slightly in admittance to them. "He could. I guess he seems interested in it, so he might be okay with me leaving. That still leaves the discussion with my parents..." he sighed and gazed over at the fire, not looking forward to that, "maybe I can figure something out, especially if I put it to them like you just did to me," he glanced back over at Samuel, "I'd hate to disappoint them, though. They're worried I won't want to come back, that I'll 'find what I'm looking for'. Though I'm not even sure what that is, myself."

nothing ever did
unless I caused it