@byulsa | pre-plotted!
The low hum of the train as it whirred it's way down the winding tracks had begun to eat away at Noctis; battered && bruised from their prior scuffles, throat hoarse / raw from shouting && the exhaustion seeping in slowly... With all of it combined, the buzzing && faint sway was nauseating, leaving a thick feeling of sickness in it’s wake; he was barely holding it together.
With nowhere else to turn && no energy left ( IT EATS AWAY AT HIM, PIECE BY PIECE ) he had sequestered himself unto the small room provided to the five of them, a bed apiece, hunched over with his elbows on his knees && head in his hands. He’s faintly aware of her presence when the door slides open and the bed springs opposite him creak just a little too harshly, but he takes his time in looking up, makes a slow show of it / swiping his hands down his face, forcing on a smile.
“...Hey.” Offered like a life line already snapped; insulting, a cupped palm full of water to a house on fire, the sinner on his knees, the water all holy. He pretends he can’t feel the tension in the air.












