[open & closed] and when that day comes

[thereneverwas]

WHO: Barrow & friends
WHAT: ye olde lyrium detox in its various stages
WHEN: vaguely Wintermarch
WHERE: the infirmary
NOTES: I'll be adding a few starters at a time since I want later developments to feel organic and make sense. please feel free to request something if you don't see it here!

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[thereneverwas]

Barrow squints pensively, eating the last cookie to help him think, and folds his arms with an air of conclusion.

"Couple weeks?" His eyebrows pinch in a look that's both uncertain and amused as he directs his gaze back to Astrid, "felt like it, at least. Long enough to figure it out properly."

[brennvin]

“Wish I could’ve experienced that,” Astrid muses. “Woulda been a wolf if I were there. Although maybe that’s like… sacri-leg-ious to say, ‘cos holdbeasts are special? Still, though. If I could choose.”

And then she gives him the once-over, considering. “So Bear really fits you. I called it.”

[thereneverwas]

He gives an amiable nod. "Most were," he confirms, pausing for a second-- it's sacrilegious to want to be a wolf?-- but he supposes he's not going around volunteering to be a burning prophet.

"You did." His smile grows, and he stoops again to test his work, "if that rift ever opens up again I'll make sure you hear about it."

[brennvin]

“Good.”

Astrid’s wound up perched on the edge of the mattress, one leg now swinging restlessly off the edge as she leans to crane and watch Barrow work. There’s something soothing about someone working with their hands in the background of the room; building something, making something. There was always stuff to fix around the hold, keeping busy.

And even though she’s browbeaten her way in here, she feels the need to add for posterity: “Also if you do wind up needing anything later… just, y’know, holler on the crystal? That’s what friends are for.”

[thereneverwas]

"Course." Barrow's smile is warm, grateful-- periodically he'll find himself wondering if he has any friends, if he's tied to this place in any meaningful way other than wanting to avoid Out There-- but he takes Astrid's words to heart.

"You too."