Kael---
Understood more than most the true meaning of her words…
That loneliness was---
Painful on a physical level...
A burning brand, you could never fully acknowledge. A slow, searing kind of torture that was invisible to everyone around you…
A pain, he was slowly beginning to realize, was eased---
Whenever she was around.
Internally, he smirked.
Hopelessly...
She had no idea what she had become to him. That she was the last thing on his mind as he went to sleep at night and the first thing he thought about when he woke. She was always there, at the edges of his consciousness.
This feeling probably had a name, but---
He'd long forgotten it...
So for now---
Perhaps it was for the best that she didn't know…
How much she utterly consumed him!
Kael watched her blush, and something inside of him felt warm and tight at the same time. Watched her desperately attempt to think of a response...
Watched her fail.
And found himself smiling...
Not because it was amusing.
