* @rescuedeveryone — CALEB & ESSEK
EXHAUSTION — SEEMS TO BE A CONSTANT COMPANION THESE DAYS. sets in at the slightest provocation, sleep eluding even when time allows. tonight, however, time has not been on his side. plans ( best laid though they are ) do not much account for a wizard’s sleep. and . . . lately, it is harder than it has been in some time to assert the need for anything of his own. the nein feel a world away, even so close, and that is frightening and . . . necessary all at once.
but essek — essek feels closer than ever before. nearby in a scrap, sharing intimate moments usually reserved for the family he’s chosen, in the home he builds for them, the elven wizard is a comfort — one caleb forces himself to forget, until now. until . . . perhaps there is no longer a need.
but distant or close, they need him ( again ) — they need the dome. so he drops ( falls ) to his knees in the halls, dark and grim and cold, and begins the ritual. or . . . he tries. he is bleeding most everywhere after the fight, and everything leading up to it, and so, so tired, so he pays no mind to a little extra . . . until he notices it dripping onto his hand. he wipes at his nose, feels his vision swim . . . and still no dome. that is when he catches essek’s eye, over the dulled, but still constant, hubbub of the mighty nein around them both.