a ray of light shone in my darkness

[bearshermark]

WHO: Eleven + various! YOU, if u want
WHEN: Late May
WHERE: The farm
WHAT: Catch-all for misc threads
WARNINGS: Violence, dark topics?

[ooc: prompts in comments. if you've got an idea for a thread outside of El's open thread that you think would work better here, go for it. If you'd like to work something out, pm or plurk!]

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Alina

[bearshermark]

[The shock of discovery fades into crushing relief. Eleven sways with it, footsteps faltering as his chest swells, as it tightens his throat and catches in his breath. He veers away from the clean, warmer rooms they've fixed up in favor of an undisturbed space.

He trembles through delayed exhaustion, leans back against a wall only to slowly slump down the height of it. Hands clasped tightly together between knees and chest while his heart pounds a rapid rhythm beneath his fingers, through the unstained fabric of his coat and undershirt.

The tears come on the cusp of such relief, in heavy, wet breaths alongside the stinging twinge of fear that emerges in the wake of holding something fragile]