✿ Twelfth Bud [Action]

[seiriald]

[Who knew if anyone bothered to come by this part of the village so early in the morning, with the light of the sun only just bothering to peek over the horizon. If there was anyone though, and if they happened to come by the playground behind the school such a person would be able to spot a brunette teenager, sitting on one of the swings that was swaying ever so slightly with her journal discarded a few yards off. She's not sleeping, and there are no physical injuries to be seen, but the near-dead look on her gray face should say more than enough that if she tries to move, she won't be getting very far.

Not that she even intends to try, her fear and absolute sense of helplessness will keep her from doing anything on her own for some time.]



((ooc: tags in earnest later in the morning after some sleep!))

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[seiriald]

['You're back now.' That was all she had needed to hear, and all that prompts her to reach forward and cling to Freyjadour as tightly as she could, her body shaking in both relief and fear, and who knew what else beneath those prominent emotions.

She just wanted to go somewhere safe, and she trusted him to be able to help her with that.]

[falenandawn]

[He hold her tightly, allowing her to shake in his arms as she deals with whatever they had done to her. He didn't know, and the pit of his stomach twisted coldly when he tried to imagine what they might have done to make her react in such a way.]

We can go back to the house... I can make you something to eat, and then you can get some rest. I won't leave your side, ok?

[seiriald]

[The only response she can give him, to tell him that she agrees with all his suggestions is to just nod slowly. She couldn't remember the last time she ate, but physical pain was nothing in comparison to the emotional turmoil she had going on now.

Tugging on his shirt in hopes of communicating to him that she was ready to leave, Kaori still squeezes her eyes shut in hopes of somehow escaping the fears trickling through her mind.]

[falenandawn]

I'm going to pick you up, ok? [that warning given, rather then risk her body being potentially too weak to walk, Frey instead allows the hug and takes it one step further- scooping her up in his arms, carefully, very carefully, in case she was injured anywhere he could not see.

She was almost worryingly light.]

[seiriald]

[The idea of him picking him up was... weird to say the least, given how little it happened back home. Yet she raises no objections, merely holding on to Frey and trying not to dwell too much on the fear that had been a constant while she was there.

It almost made her want to be a small child again, so she could cling to the security he provided without thinking of herself as pathetic that she was being so weak that she still had to rely on others so heavily in adulthood.]

[falenandawn]

[hopefully he could check her over more properly when they got to the house..... But for now, with how slow to respond she had been before, he would prefer to not risk it.

Light though she may be, she was still large enough to be of some difficulty to carry. It's slow going as he carries her to the house, keeping his arms securely around her as he goes.]

[seiriald]

[If Kaori were aware of the difficulty Frey was having in taking her to the house, she would have insisted that she could try to walk on her own even though she felt so fatigued. It was probably for the better, since the state of her mind would likely affect any ability she had left to control her body that hadn't been robbed by lack of sleep and the beginnings of malnutrition.

She almost wanted to apologize, and her lips begin to move to do so even though sound would refuse to come out still. It only made her frustration all the more apparent on her face.]

[falenandawn]

[He doesn't notice the movement of her lips as he concentrates on his grip on her, but he does eventually notice the frustration, and frowns in response.

What had they done, to cause all of this....?]

It will be ok. I promise.