just as cecily wants to say absolutely nothing of the hallucinations she's had, cullen wants to say nothing of what he saw. she already knows the basics of what he was reliving for a brief (horrible) moment. there's no need to elaborate on it. if he can treat it like it was little more than a memory-turned-nightmare like he often has, shrug it off and keep her talking about something else... it would be better. ]
There was a moment where I saw something that couldn't possibly be real. [ he's not looking at her when he says it. he's inspecting the pommel of one of his knives, running his thumb over the worn leather of the grip. without his mantle to mask it, the tension in his shoulders is easy to spot. ] Someone--I don't know who--came by and managed to disperse it, and I moved on. These creatures found me. You know the rest.
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just as cecily wants to say absolutely nothing of the hallucinations she's had, cullen wants to say nothing of what he saw. she already knows the basics of what he was reliving for a brief (horrible) moment. there's no need to elaborate on it. if he can treat it like it was little more than a memory-turned-nightmare like he often has, shrug it off and keep her talking about something else... it would be better. ]
There was a moment where I saw something that couldn't possibly be real. [ he's not looking at her when he says it. he's inspecting the pommel of one of his knives, running his thumb over the worn leather of the grip. without his mantle to mask it, the tension in his shoulders is easy to spot. ] Someone--I don't know who--came by and managed to disperse it, and I moved on. These creatures found me. You know the rest.
[ end of story. ]