[It doesn't take many words to work out a picture of what must have happened, really. A glass in his hands, a dizzy spell. He tried not to fall, the glass did; perhaps he fell anyway, to have ended up on the ground. And then in the aftermath, the weight of the realization — trapped. Glass on the floor, water on the floor, and no way out. Trapped.
The switch to French is more than just easy; it's a hollow sort of ironic. It hadn't been so long ago that she'd been the one resorting to it, wrapped up in bed with bandages on her arms, because her head hurt and words were so hard and French slides out of the throat so much easier than English does.]
Shh. Can you try to focus on me, matou? That's all I do, when you're close to me. I want to pet you and pet you as much as I can.
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[It doesn't take many words to work out a picture of what must have happened, really. A glass in his hands, a dizzy spell. He tried not to fall, the glass did; perhaps he fell anyway, to have ended up on the ground. And then in the aftermath, the weight of the realization — trapped. Glass on the floor, water on the floor, and no way out. Trapped.
The switch to French is more than just easy; it's a hollow sort of ironic. It hadn't been so long ago that she'd been the one resorting to it, wrapped up in bed with bandages on her arms, because her head hurt and words were so hard and French slides out of the throat so much easier than English does.]
Shh. Can you try to focus on me, matou? That's all I do, when you're close to me. I want to pet you and pet you as much as I can.