Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140205203111/@comment-3293219-20140207112723

(Sorry, didn't have much time to proof read. :/)

Nepht had been walking the streets, looking for her friend for some time. She couldn't find the breton anywhere and she concluded that her friend must have gone. She wasn't sure why exactly, was it to look for Petra? Was it to get away from the city, from that terrible argonian?

The dunmer sat on a step, forgetting that it was somebody's house as she began to sob to herself. She felt abandoned, useless...

Deserving...

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Lott stayed in the chapel, to tend to the refugees there, though many were weary of him. His sudden appearance and mental health problems, didn't exactly fill people with confidence and without his friends, he had nobody to argue his case.

The altmer stepped out of the chapel, bowing his head with a sigh as Ganlas appeared from an alleyway.

''"Bad day?" ''

"I... guess." Lott admitted, looking up to his only friend. "I... I think I should go back to the fort."

Ganlas sighed and looked away, he understood why Lott would want this but he didn't agree with it. "But didn't you want to meet other people?"

"Yes but other people didn't really want to meet me."

Lott began to walk away, hanging his head as he did so as his robes were scattered by a gust of wind. His imaginary friend followed from behind him, walking faithfully by his side.

''"You don't think that people will always have time for you, do you?" ''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Ganlas probed as they passed a confused family, who watched them until they turned a corner and went into an alleyway.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"I think it's kind of obvious that there's no place for me here, I can't help these people, I don't even know what to say."

''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"You don't have to say anything, just be there for them..." ''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">They stopped as they saw Nepht crying to herself on somebody's porch, Lott felt his heart sink as he looked back at his friend.

''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Go to her..." ''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> He whispered as Lott looked ahead.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Lott took a step forward; it was difficult for the altmer to conceive that he was going to start a conversation, something that he hadn't done in...

''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">How long has it been? ''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He stopped in front of the crying dunmer, the moon cast on his back and his shadow fell on her, causing her to notice him and look up with her tear blinded eyes.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Are you okay?" His voice was soft, almost father like...

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Nepht sniffed and swallowed as she processed that it was Lott, she gave a force smile and a faint laugh. "Yeah, just..."

''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Just that I'm useless and I'll never amount to anything... ''<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"May I?" Lott gestured to the step; she nodded and shuffled along, allowing him to sit next to her. He thought about putting his arm around her back but that might give her the wrong impression, so he placed his hands on his lap.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Have you seen Mikasa?" Her question was full of doubt, the breton left, hours ago...

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"I don't believe I've seen her since we brought her back to the chapel." The altmer answered, truthfully.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"So... I'm..." She stiffened her sobs, feeling pathetic more than anything. She couldn't help but feel that her problems were small, that they should be trivialized to put them in their place. "Alone?"

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"No..." Lott said in a warm whisper, "not at all..."

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Nepht sure felt like it... first Daniel, then grandad, Petra and now it's Mikasa. She felt cursed, like everyone around her is doomed to loathe her and leave her to rot...

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"I'll be here; your family will always be here..."

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Nepht felt guilty after hearing this... to her, this wasn't enough. Lott was here, because there was nobody else and her family had to stick by her. She didn't feel lonely from a lack of people in her life, she felt lonely, because there were a lack of people who chose to be a part of her life.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"I... I guess..." She replied with a misery induced mumbled, hoping to appease the altmer.