@alexrphub ( @vampiricchimera ) said: ☽ = wandering alone at night
send one for your muse’s reaction to my muse: ☽ = wandering alone at night
▐│∶x∶; — seeing adam out and about this time of night is hardly surprising. be it due to the animals they “co-existed” with or personal habits, no one in the nest really has normal ( let alone healthy ) sleep schedules. some of them preferred the witching hours as their time for activity. dol understood why… it was quieter. less people up and about, though dublith had its share of nocturnals, too, and definitely less vehicle traffic. –more places to hide, shadows to vanish into.
dolcetto personally preferred mornings, but every now and again he’d find himself sulking around in the late hours… either a pathetic attempt to escape a looming nightmare or too restless to lie down. this was one of those nights, and he sat on a crate just outside the bar’s walls.
the end of his pipe emitted a dull glow as he inhaled, reflecting white against his eyes, and he exhaled the smoke through his nose.
this shit usually helped him focus on one thing rather than struggle through a sensory overload. wasn’t really doing its damned job right now, was it?
dol stays still as adam approaches. the guy’s probably returning from a patrol or a perimeter check, and dol simply lifts his chin in greeting.
it’s more a grunt than a word, but he doubts either of them care at this hour.
In Adam’s mind, being the night guard was one of the worst duties at the Devil’s Nest. Second only to janitorial duties. While most of Dublith was asleep at night, and not much happened, the inside of the Devil’s Nest always seemed to thrive. Drunks, degenerates, misfits, and all other kinds of ‘low lives’ seemed to make the bar entertaining. Making it a fine substitution for chimeras like Adam who were usually asleep by noon. But patrolling the outside was the complete opposite. There was no drunken antics to find entertaining, just the rare drunk passed out next to his own vomit.
Coming back to the entrance, hands stuffed into his pant pockets, Adam saw the brief glow from a pipe, and upon getting closer, was able to make out the chimera behind the pipe. Dolcetto.
“Hey.” Adam replies with a similar chin lift greeting. Leaning against the wall of the entrance, Adam pulled his hands out of his pockets and folded them across his chest.
“So, enjoying the night crowd?” He asked, turning his head slightly towards Dol. He wasn’t sure if his fellow chimera was in the mood for small talk, but Adam wasn’t about to stay quiet and be left alone with his thoughts.