@spiritdreamt asked: you feel like home to me. / PROMPTS FOR TOUCHED STARVED MUSES: still accepting.
"Head still ringing?" Outside, the crickets chirrup in the crisp December night.
God. She has this gift, Henry realizes, to let spill perhaps the most upending musings -- or not spill, not quite, as though a crack in a barrel or a fault in a wineskin. Rather, it's like she's raining them mindlessly, foisting them and foisting them till it'd wade to his skull, and there, they would candy them tender like fruits in the sunshine. Or dewdrops. When when he looks at her, gone soppy are his hopes and his mounting dreams.
But, no, she can't be aware of that, can she now, this creature?, of all that...love and the yearning she has so offered him thusly. It's impossible. It's how love goes in them storybooks, don't they? The girl never quite knows her power and sway.
"Have gone and lowered your standards, have you, ma'am? Taking to roughing it in ratty inns and worn, thin bedding?" He smiles. It's a jest -- or perhaps not. Either way, he throws his travel blanket onto the single bed in the humble inn-room and looks to her. He'll take the chair, and and this day had been fraught. "All ready for you. Not like them downs you've got back in that mighty castle of yours, but it should keep the chill from you."