[His breath is still unsteady, eyes dropping to his hands that clench and unclench as though it could remind himself of what he's supposed to be feeling. Reality, not... not...
He turns, if only to see that he still has company, and that they're still standing there. Still there. They must have been the body he felt a moment ago, and--]
Yes. I'm--
[Its transparent and yet so vibrantly mixed at the same time, the emotions that travel his face. A bone-deep fear, a crushing guilt, a shame that drapes it all over and that same flicker of fury that seems so misplaced now, a fire being drowned out by something darker.]
I'm fine. I'm... fine.
[He doesn't believe it, and every word is shaken. But he swipes an arm backward as in warning, brow paining in its tension.
He doesn't want to hear it.]
Get away from me.
[Half a scowl, half a plead. How much like a cornered animal he feels.
He doesn't look back at them again, choosing to instead look for his weapon in the numb aftershocks. He's fine. He's fine. He's fine.]
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[His breath is still unsteady, eyes dropping to his hands that clench and unclench as though it could remind himself of what he's supposed to be feeling. Reality, not... not...
He turns, if only to see that he still has company, and that they're still standing there. Still there. They must have been the body he felt a moment ago, and--]
Yes. I'm--
[Its transparent and yet so vibrantly mixed at the same time, the emotions that travel his face. A bone-deep fear, a crushing guilt, a shame that drapes it all over and that same flicker of fury that seems so misplaced now, a fire being drowned out by something darker.]
I'm fine. I'm... fine.
[He doesn't believe it, and every word is shaken. But he swipes an arm backward as in warning, brow paining in its tension.
He doesn't want to hear it.]
Get away from me.
[Half a scowl, half a plead. How much like a cornered animal he feels.
He doesn't look back at them again, choosing to instead look for his weapon in the numb aftershocks. He's fine. He's fine. He's fine.]