“ you don’t have to talk, we can just sit together. ” // sentence starters . // @kienokoru
THERE’D BEEN SOME TIME during which caleb - previously wilhelm , klaus , daniel , & all other names between him & BREN ALDRIC ERMENDRUD - had only HIMSELF to rely on ; now that he’s AWARE of what it means to be PROPERLY CARED FOR , the wizard can RECOGNIZE just how LONELY it had been—
...though to accept such care from anyone outside of the nein remains a... TENTATIVE process . he expects the WORST of those to whom he’s UNFAMILIAR , anticipating TROUBLE at every turn - but... there’s some sort of POTENTIAL with shiro , & while he takes it with a CAUTION , caleb doesn’t REJECT the kindness as it’s received .
there’s a BREATH , the wizard wearing REMORSE upon countenance ; an attempted smile pinches TOO TIGHT the corners of his eyes , & he hangs his head at where expression falls instantly aside . where with most he’d keep STOIC countenance , present UNFALTERING IMPASSIVITY , it’s within agreeable company that stony facade presents its CRACKS---a statue pieced together with broken shards , fallible & flawed - though it’s the FOUNDATION at where the REAL problem lies ; he has no intention of allowing shiro such close inspection.
---lifting his head , another wry sort of smile causes more a GRIMACE to his face , though an expression of GRATITUDE it’s meant to be taken as.