Usually, Lorian wakes up early, starts packing up the camp, practices some drills, and makes breakfast by the time Lothric starts stirring sluggishly around noon. It’s maybe not a classy look, especially by the military standards Lorian is used to, but he figures sleep is probably good for him. It’s always hard for Lorian to tell how things are effecting his brother - suddenly living in the wilderness, being hunted, the threat of being put to death, the coming apocalypse, chronic pain, all of that weird shit about leading a ‘holy’ life that their father’s priestesses kept stuffing into his head...if he needs the extra sleep, he can take it.
So it comes as a surprise when Lorian goes to bed with a cold and wakes up to a hooded figure waiting quietly on standby to hand him tea and food.
“And how log have you been here?” he asks indignantly, sitting up because really, he’s perfectly fine.
“Not many logs,” Lothric observes, toneless and merciless.
But this isn’t really happening, is it? If Lorian wants, he can observe the scene from outside of it, too, sitting nearby and watching Lothric try to get a past self to accept a warm mug. That’s not really Lothric, either. The real one isn’t here, he somehow knows (the real one is awake, to be precise, but Lorian isn’t always aware that he’s dreaming).
Or did Lothric come to join him? No, not Lothric. He turns to find a stranger sitting next to him, watching the scene. This fellow is much shorter than Lorian’s 16 feet, one of the humanfolk. In ordinary circumstances, Lorian would be quite guarded around a stranger. Living with constant death threats up until just recently will do that. But he’s been so resistant to the idea of relaxing that the lavender haze has had to keep him pretty heavily sedated to keep him from waking up. He’s been presented nothing but pleasantness for days, and he doesn’t question that this stranger has come in peace and means no harm. He muzzily writes, do you have siblings? and passes the note to his neighbor. Meanwhile, in the scene of the memory, Lorian’s sibling is stubbornly clinging to his leg to sabotage his attempt to get up and get to work, and they’re fighting about it.
