Have a lil baby ficlet I guess:
"--d? Orik, wake up!" Tarah shook his shoulder--gently, because the one in her reach was his bad one, but hopefully still firmly enough to wake him up. Orik had been breathing oddly and mumbling in his sleep.
Orik flinched hard when he woke up. For a few moments he laid there, staring ahead and trying to reorient himself. Shaking, he reached over and picked up his mask. He held it on his face as he waited for his breathing to calm down. There were a lot of feelings in him at the moment, and having an extra barrier between his emotions and the rest of the world's prying eyes brought Orik comfort he desperately needed.
"Are you okay?" Tarah asked with no hint of snark, no teasing in her voice. It was worrying seeing Orik so transparently panicked.
With no prior warning, Orik flipped on the lamp and began frantically checking her over for any damage. "Tarah, are you alright? You're not hurt, are you?"
"I'm fine," she said, rolling with him for the time being. "What's gotten into you?"
Not finding anything different or concerning on Tarah, Orik stopped looking over her with a sigh, sinking back against his bed. "I-I had a bad dream," he admitted. "I'm sorry, I should have asked before prodding at you like that."
Tarah was unfazed; she was no stranger to weird behaviors after nightmares. "It's okay, I've taken a faceful of Arcane from Thayne during his nightmares. But why did you?"
Orik looked away, his mask reflecting a much more subdued version of his distressed expression. "The gods were trying to recreate the Necronomicog...you, Thayne, everyone was so badly hurt..." The images flashed through his mind again and made him shudder. "I...I wanted to reassure myself that it wasn't real."
"Mhm, it's just a dream, we're all okay..." A pause while she fiddled with her cape. "Do you need a hug?"
"Please." His response was almost instant.
Tarah hopped up and hugged him tight around his shoulders. Orik hugged her back with his good arm, already feeling better.
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