"I'm sorry - I - I just wanted to see you."
rose hearted. @ablehearted
——it shouldn’t come as a surprise, give a man a glimpse of alliance && he will return, he will return, he will return. they are both similar, both with family who means the world to them. catalyst looked to holden && sees a man who is a proxy, stronger than he thinks && at the same time- not so much. a paradox, in of itself. he makes him curious.
it is why he does not turn him away.
there are questions, as there always are, but they can be answered later. when things are less tense. when he does not look at another && wonder, wonder, wonder. catalyst does not trust him. but, then again, catalyst trusts no one here. even his own shadow could jump up to pull him into the bliss, if he is not careful- if he is not careful, the forest life would eat him alive before the cult. if he is not careful, he will not get to go home.
catalyst has been nothing but careful.
holden steps inside the little section of the outpost he had taken for himself, catalyst closes the door to the outside world. offers him a seat, a hint of a smile, ever small, ever slight. he does not say a thing, not because he does not know what to say, but because there is nothing to be said. no, they can have a moment. they can be granted that, the ones of his alliance stay on guard outside.
he reaches out to tuck a semblance of hair out of face, behind ear. it is not like catalyst’s own. just as there is a lot of similarities, differences come just as quick. but he doesn’t mind.
it makes this interesting.