adolescence

[talim]

[ after the incident in kanbalar, alvin is back with them, acting like nothing ever happened as usual. elize is angry, leia is sympathetic, rowen is calm and observant, and milla... well, milla is milla. regardless of the recent surge of events, everyone is settling in after a long day. everyone except jude, anyway, who is standing outside on a balcony in xian diu and staring up at the sky, lost in thought.

he's never been more confused in his life. not even when he happened to meet maxwell herself, walking on water right in front of him. jude has been through a lot on this journey already, a journey he knows is still nowhere near over, but this might be the most confusing thing of all.

to be honest, milla is the person he wants to talk to most right now, and she has a habit of seeking him out when he's missing. so jude just... waits, attempting to push down the anxiety constricting in his chest and failing. ]

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[poignantalist]

[ milla expected everyone to be sleeping, but one bed is empty. stinker vint svent looks like he's sleeping like a baby (he probably isn't) and jude is stuck awake wandering around somewhere. that doesn't seem right.

fortunately, it isn't hard to find a do-gooder honors student. worst comes to worst, she could just shout that someone's in trouble. hee hee. ]

Jude. You're up late.