[ it's objectively impressive how much he seems to take all of this in stride. river already liked him for his upbeat and quirky personality, but few take to strange horrors without questioning it at least a little bit. she's not sure if that's a strictly positive thing - but she's the last person that could ever criticize him for it.
morbid and creepifyin' is her way. they make quite the team. she shakes her head to his last question. ]
No. You care about him.
[ not sure anyone needs to be psychic to tell that much. she is though, and she can feel it. the worry, guilt, concern, maybe even a little confusion. river blinks at him for a long moment before speaking quietly: ]
But it's lonely in the dark, you know.
[ both figuratively, between eddie not knowing and steve not saying - and literally, from being trapped in a cave or a mall or an inky black world with living shadows. she doesn't understand those ones but it doesn't come to her easily; she's still stuck in the cave, the pit, where steve was trapped for a month and eddie doesn't know what happened.
it's lonely. to be kept like a secret. a festering wound that won't heal until it's tended to. river wasn't there, but she can relate in other ways, and she thinks eddie should probably be a light in all that darkness. ]
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morbid and creepifyin' is her way. they make quite the team. she shakes her head to his last question. ]
No. You care about him.
[ not sure anyone needs to be psychic to tell that much. she is though, and she can feel it. the worry, guilt, concern, maybe even a little confusion. river blinks at him for a long moment before speaking quietly: ]
But it's lonely in the dark, you know.
[ both figuratively, between eddie not knowing and steve not saying - and literally, from being trapped in a cave or a mall or an inky black world with living shadows. she doesn't understand those ones but it doesn't come to her easily; she's still stuck in the cave, the pit, where steve was trapped for a month and eddie doesn't know what happened.
it's lonely. to be kept like a secret. a festering wound that won't heal until it's tended to. river wasn't there, but she can relate in other ways, and she thinks eddie should probably be a light in all that darkness. ]