▲ -Keith (defenderchosen) @ Shiro
@defenderchosen // Meme
▲ — Share a blanket with my muse!
A bad night-- day, which ever it might’ve been. It was hard to tell sometimes with the constant travel between star systems. Shiro never did sleep much, functioning off the bare minimum and collapsing where he landed. Tonight it would be a bit different though. He suspected he wouldn’t be getting much rest at all given the barrage of thoughts flashing through his mind. Memories, ghosts, the fragments of things he couldn’t quite recall and yet still had the notion of remembering. He wondered what it would be tonight-- that inkling in the back of his mind telling him that he would likely be fraught with terrors and fears the moment he closed his eyes.. Would it be the reaching of claws delving into his flesh or the moments he could do nothing but hope someone survived as he knew he wasn’t fast enough?
Would it be of Kerberos again? His eyes never left the drifting stars as he mulled over it, having perched himself in the window of Black’s bay to try to find some semblance of peace. In here, he felt safer. A flicker of a warning in his mind from the lion herself and he prepared his expression accordingly. A softer smile that didn’t reflect the chaos currently taking hold of his thoughts, he turned agate hues to Keith as he came in and cocked a brow in question. “Why’re you still up?” The same could be said for himself, but he wondered in perhaps the other wasn’t having too pleasant of a night as well. Or perhaps he was merely acting on his ‘Shiro radar’ as he called it. Keith did seem to have an eye for whenever Shiro was having a moment.
The question seemed to float in the air unnoticed and he couldn’t help but to tilt his head in further confusion when he felt a blanket being distributed over him. It.. Had been a very long time since he felt he could allow anyone to be close to him. The monstrosity that lurked beneath his skin, the reality that he could accidentally hurt someone, the thought that he could snap during one of his episodes and maim someone he cared for-- he just.. Couldn’t bring himself to allow that closeness anymore and yet he did nothing to stop it to continue the guise of him being perfectly alright. “Somethin’ bothering you, Keith?”