Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24141785-20150608200409/@comment-12599067-20150611150322

Vienelle couldn't sleep.

It wasn't for a lack of trying, and it wasn't because she wasn't tired. She and Shan'axi were accustomed to travelling for long distances and she had trained herself to be able to sleep almost on command, but on some nights she was left with nothing but some undefinable emotion that kept her from resting. She wasn't quite certain what that feeling was. Honestly, she wasn't certain it even had a name. All she knew was that it made her feel some kind of sadness or emptiness, and that it kept her from falling asleep.

That did give her plenty of time to think, though. As she looked out over the dark mountains from one of the tower's windows, a variety of thoughts and memories drifted into her mind and were gone in an instant, like water rushing over stones. She got only a brief moment to reflect upon them before they were replaced with something new. There was one thing that kept coming into her mind, however...

"You're thinking about your family again," Shan'axi spoke from somewhere behind her, causing her to jump slightly. The Argonian may have been tall and covered in heavy armor, but he had a knack for sneaking up on her when she least suspected it. She suspposed she was simply so accustomed to him that sometimes she forgot he was there.

She took a moment to try and come up with an answer, still not facing him.

"Yeah," she said at length. This was a discussion they'd had more than once before and a conversation she never liked to hold, not even with Shan.

"Mm," the Argonian hummed in answer. Vienelle was a bit surprised -- normally Shan'axi went on to say something more than that. She supposed that he was being kind, since there were plenty of other people who might be listening in.

The two were silent for a moment, with Vienelle still looking out the window and Shan'axi standing behind her.

"Do you need anything?" Shan'axi finally asked in another attempt to be comforting.

"No, I'll be alright," Vienelle answered.

And so after a moment of hesitation, Shan'axi turned and left her in peace, and that was that.