bartholomew
The immediate support makes his insides sour with regret and shame, so it's a good thing his expression is concealed with the way they lean into one another or he would feel more self-conscious about the hangdog appearance he is surely exhibiting. With the wind of misplaced blame and heated taken out of his sails he is left both adrift and cold. Things he has tried so hard to avoid to feel by hanging onto those horrible feelings for too long.
They are companions in their grief, their tremulous attempts to keep the light of Nate's memory alive amidst a windstorm that tries unfailingly to extinguish it. If Bart had known the comfort that would come with this sort of kinship perhaps he would have had the courage to seek out Sunjata sooner. "Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that. Come an' help out when ya need." Get himself out of the Grounds for more than a day at a time, rotting in place in a way Nate would have hated to see. But motion - forward movement - it just feels so hard. So there's no judgement from his side when Sunjata admits to having avoided the Grounds.
"I mean 's barely recognizable these days. Might not be as hard as ya think. But yer welcome to come visit me there too." Perhaps it would be more in line with traditional idioms to say 'always welcome', but given he has only just changed his mind on Sunjata's presence in the last hour, it would feel disingenuous. No matter how hopeful he is beginning to feel about all this.
They are companions in their grief, their tremulous attempts to keep the light of Nate's memory alive amidst a windstorm that tries unfailingly to extinguish it. If Bart had known the comfort that would come with this sort of kinship perhaps he would have had the courage to seek out Sunjata sooner. "Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that. Come an' help out when ya need." Get himself out of the Grounds for more than a day at a time, rotting in place in a way Nate would have hated to see. But motion - forward movement - it just feels so hard. So there's no judgement from his side when Sunjata admits to having avoided the Grounds.
"I mean 's barely recognizable these days. Might not be as hard as ya think. But yer welcome to come visit me there too." Perhaps it would be more in line with traditional idioms to say 'always welcome', but given he has only just changed his mind on Sunjata's presence in the last hour, it would feel disingenuous. No matter how hopeful he is beginning to feel about all this.
Wake up, or you'll wake up six feet down
nobody's got your back in this town
nobody's got your back in this town
