[His eyes are wide, his cheeks bloodless. His heart races uncontrollably in his chest. His head's filled with cotton, but not so much that it shields him from this new, terrible understanding. Light like a nephilim's is cutting through it, making it so that he can't look away, he can't un-know, that--]
-- I think I did.
I think I've...
...done something useless. Something that's exposed my friends...
...to terrible danger. And, not only that...everything, I --
[The cup in his hands is trembling. There's a very real danger it will fall, if it's left alone. Atem doesn't seem to remember he's holding it.]
blanket cw for anxiety and panic, we're in it
But I --
[His eyes are wide, his cheeks bloodless. His heart races uncontrollably in his chest. His head's filled with cotton, but not so much that it shields him from this new, terrible understanding. Light like a nephilim's is cutting through it, making it so that he can't look away, he can't un-know, that--]
-- I think I did.
I think I've...
...done something useless. Something that's exposed my friends...
...to terrible danger. And, not only that...everything, I --
[The cup in his hands is trembling. There's a very real danger it will fall, if it's left alone. Atem doesn't seem to remember he's holding it.]
Oh, no.