josh bennett (pkaltered) wrote in downfallrpg, @ 2010-03-25 16:42:00 |
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Current mood: | weird |
The Middle of Nothingness
Who: Josh and Rowan
When: mid-afternoon, day 9
Where: the roof
It had just stopped raining, and Josh wasn't sure he was pleased about that. He'd been standing out in the open during the downpour, and his jeans, t-shirt and hair were soaked; he brushed longish dark-blond hair that dripped with water out of his eyes as he looked up at the sky. Dark-grey clouds roiled, although he couldn't tell if there would be more precipitation to come or if the rest of the day would simply be gloomy. Whether it would rain again or not didn't matter that much. He felt better up here than he did in the stuffy and dark confines of the hotel.
It might seem strange that he'd been standing out here getting drenched, but it was a behavior that now felt as instinctive as breathing. The showers he'd taken since he'd gotten to the hotel were icy cold, and it wasn't from any impulse to try to save the hot water. It cooled him, energized him, even sometimes made him feel a strange sort of arousal that he wasn't sure what to do with. Beyond the obvious, of course. His skin felt so hot all the time now, and the cold water provided relief. The rain did, too, when it was a cool rain like this one had been. Josh stood as if in a daze as the wind blew all around him, chilling him further, and his fingers rubbed idly at one bare elbow. Was the whole world like this? he wondered. Small ports of refuge, but other than that chaos?
He squinted toward the distant horizon, taking a couple of steps closer to the edge of the roof. Not close enough to fall off but close enough to feel as if he was standing in the middle of nothingness, waiting for it to sweep him away.