@mythandmonsters continued from [X]
“Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you...”
The words were barely more than a whisper, but Dainn sounded upset regardless as he sat at the end of the bed, his head hung low, wringing his hands in his lap.
It was too dark in the room to see immediately, but he’d gotten into a fight again, his skin a patchwork of fresh bruises and scrapes. Dainn didn’t even know why he was sitting there in June’s room right now. He just needed to be somewhere he didn’t feel completely alone.
“You didn’t, promise. I was...I was having a nightmare. Are you okay?”
She sat up and pulled her blanket more firmly around herself, never one to sleep in much more than her underwear. A hesitant hand reached out, settling lightly on his shoulder to offer some form of comfort.
Of everyone that could have slipped into her room this late at night, Dainn had not been on the list of people she would expect. But she wasn’t mad or upset, she felt safe with him. But that didn’t mean she wasn’t worried about him.