#interactions: silver.

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“  Father put a balding potion in your hair gel again, didn't he?  ”

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He’s happy father could make it for his birthday. 

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“  In case you need to hear it today, It’s okay to be gay.  ”  Not that he knows what he is. As far as he knows he could be straight. 

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Sebek can’t see it on account of his fixed gaze on the retreating birds, but Silver is smiling. Maybe not much has changed from before, but it’s still progress. Silver’s proud of him. 

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He wakes up with a slight start as he sneezes before immediately going back to sleep.

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❛    are you alright?    ❜  the softly spoken question is prompted by what silver had overheard a few minutes prior while he’d been dozing. it is always difficult to rouse the second year from his slumber but somehow sebek’s booming voice always does the trick. which means silver at least half witnessed his underclassmen quarreling before sebek had stalked off. ❛    pay no mind to him. sometimes sebek can be...too passionate for his own good.    ❜

@camotix​  //  hi

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@makovu​​ :    "holding up alright?" it's a simple question in what's certainly not a simple time, and for what's far from simple reasons — to say leona doesn't care would be an understatement, but to say leona does care would be an overstatement. but he's the oldest one here, so he has some sort of responsibility for this group, silver included.

besides — his mind drifts to malleus, not allowed to tag along, and to how disappointed they'd be in him if he didn't check on silver in even the smallest way.

for the most part it’s silver who’s the first to volunteer to do the manual labor tasks on their journey. leona & ace are too averse to working if they can avoid it & thankfully most of the time yuu can back down after silver assures that he wants to do the work alone. the only consistent obstacle is sebek who has to strong-arms silver into allowing the other accompany him. 

it’s hard to say whether sebek is unable to pick up on silver’s desire to have some time alone or whether this is his own strange way of taking care of him. maybe sebek just doesn’t want to be alone in this. it wouldn’t be unreasonable for him to be grieving in this as well. lilia meant a lot to him. lilia meant a lot to all of them, most of all to silver. after all lilia was his-- well. that’s just the problem isn’t it? silver doesn’t know what lilia is or was to him anymore. & now he’ll never be able to ask lilia, the only father he’d ever known what silver was to him too.

tonight is one of the few times silver’s been able to get through to sebek, the younger fortunately backing down after silver had raised his voice at him. silver can’t remember the last time he’s yelled at someone. perhaps he never has. most people would hardly call what happened tonight yelling but those who know silver know that it was as close as he’s ever been to it. lilia’s passing has changed him & the knowledge of that scares him. it scares him almost as much as the unclear future staring him in the face. 

silver’s chopping firewood when he hears the sound of leaves crumpling under footfall. the footsteps are about the same weight as sebek’s would have been but far too light & careful to be the halfling’s proud & heavy strides. silver knows who’s approaching behind him even before he speaks. this is in leona’s favor really as startling the axe armed young man would have likely proved disastrous for the both of them. 

❛    does it matter?    ❜  silver replies cooly, the younger giving a small shrug as he continues. he doesn’t understand why leona’s asking, why he’s going so far as to reach out. it’s not as if they’re particularly close. at present their only tie to each other being master malleus who -- oh. he hasn’t even thought of malleus, not since they left for their journey. silver had been so caught up in his own problems & lilia’s passing that he’d completely overlooked it. he ought to be ashamed of himself. if father -- if master lilia saw him now...surely he’d be utterly disappointed in him.

❛    i’m just about finished. you can return to the others.    ❜   silver’s doing leona a favor really. whatever sympathy & kindness has brought the prince to his side, leona certainly doesn’t deserve to be affronted by the mountain of torment riding on silver’s shoulders. truthfully silver himself doesn’t know how to speak of it. it’s all so fresh in his mind & for all his training, he’s never quite learned how to face a battle like this one. they must simply let time lay this matter to rest. but perhaps once the clouds of sleep have cleared from silver’s mind, he’ll be able to speak of it. until then all they can do is carry on walking in this waking nightmare of a reality.

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❛    sebek.    ❜  silver leads his horse to stand alongside sebek & his, the older boy’s aurora eyes fixed on the other as he struggles to control his mount. it’s the first day since sebek has joined the equestrian club & as riddle is occupied it’s up to silver to lead him in the right direction. ❛    use less force. shouting commands will only startle your horse. be more gentle.    ❜

@briaradherent​  //  hiii