Room Service(Menith, L'nuo(?))

[Rowen]

Rekka stood watching him, her gaze traveled to Menith confusion on her face mixed with fear. Her expression cleared as she moved quietly up behind him hesitating before placing her hands on his back and rubbing them as she wondered what dreams haunted him. He was speaking from experience, that much was clear to Rekka. She didn't dare ask what his were, she hadn't been forth coming in her own dreams, it was only fair she not ask.

A thought occurred to her and she couldn't help the twitch of her lips. It seems she'd gotten what she wanted, sort of anyway. He wouldn't touch her without her asking, she wondered how far he would really go with his words. A riders words were like stone to most, and to Rekka she knew well that to a rider his words were stone. The question was if she could somehow fool him.

She relaxed as she rubbed feeling his warmth through his shirt, but she felt unsatisfied with the rasp of cloth against her hands. Her lips parted but no sound escaped as Rekka realized what she'd been about to say. She certainly was not going to ask him to remove his shirt so she could touch him better. She wasn't going to ask what she could do to make him forget his pain as much as he had helped her with her own. Her pain lingered, but it was normally worse, this she could handle.

[E]

L’nuo did not move at her touch, nor did he turn to look at her. He sat there, his back still hunched and his face still staring at the now empty mug. His hands held it tightly, unsure of what game the woman behind him played at now. She had just told him that his touch terrified her, and he had just promised not to touch here and yet here she was… doing this…

Several long, tense minutes passed before finally he put his mug down forcefully. Standing up, he turned to her and it was plain to see in his eyes the pain and confusion. “No.” he said, his usually warm and cheerful voice cold and hard. “No,” he repeated, not pushing her away, but moving to the door and pointing. “Because if you continue that, it will lead to other things. I refuse to be somebody you have need to fear.”

Closing his eyes, L’nuo looked truly pained as he swallowed and pointed again. “Go. I refuse to let my touch terrify you.”

“Go.”

[Rowen]

Rekka watched L'nuo quietly. Her instincts were telling her to run to get out to leave, but the expression on his face made her stay, staring at him. Her gaze moved to the door then back to L'nuo. In that moment she knew she wouldn't leave unless Menith pushed her out. Blindingly clear then all her emotions solidified into stubborn determination.

She knew that Menith would push her out if she caused L'nuo pain, but Rekka didn't think she was the cause of this. She wanted to heal it, to heal it she would need to know what it was, to learn what it was she would have to be closer with L'nuo, to have him trust her enough to tell her what hurt him. Her mind shifted as she searched for words that terrified her, yet she knew she had to say if she was to stay.

"And if I want what scares me?"

[E]

L’nuo watched the woman as she looked from the doorway back to him. He watched the stubbornness and determination grow behind those deep brown eyes and his heart wrenched. Hearing her speak those words, the words that just contradicted everything… the words that had been spoken so long ago. Was that truly this lifetime? Was that truly him who had heard those words come from such beautiful lips so long ago?

Eyes narrowing as those words slapped him in the face, he let his arm drop slowly. L’nuo never meant to raise his voice, he never meant to let the pain get the better of him but even as he spoke he regretted the words. “Then you are just like Ashni. Leave me now before you kill us both. I’ve already died once.”

Deciding not to take chances, he turned his back to her and grabbed his flight jacket on the way out. Vaulting to the neck of the great brown without even bothering with the flight harness the two took off silently from the weyr ledge, flying upwards into the dark sky. It was not even a breath after they left between that the rain began to fall.

[Rowen]

Rekka stood staring after him. Ashni? A woman's name, a woman had hurt L'nuo. Maybe on purpose maybe not Rekka could not say. She moved to the ledge and looked up into the rain not bothering to try shielding it from herself. The rain dropped on her, and around her after a time she went inside numb to the wet cold that clung to her. It seemed that L'nuo's dreams were worse then hers. Perhaps she could help, perhaps she would make them worse. All she could do was let him be until next they met.

She walked out closing the door behind her walking toward her own bed without really paying attention. She passed people in the hall but ignored their stares and reaching her room entered it only then realizing she was missing something.. Rekka laughed at the irony, she was barefoot and as she slid into her bed still wet from the rain she closed her eyes. Seeing L'nuo's pained expression, hearing his yell ringing in her ears, and with that she slept. Pulled into a dream she'd never had, but wasn't exactly pleasant. She dreamed of L'nuo's pain.

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