( the morning after finds clarke griffin, agitated, pained, dizzy, and nauseated. it takes her far longer than normal to rise from her bedroll, to precariously wrap her scarves around her head and secure the rest of her disguise. there's calls for breakfast, and the mere thought of food turns her stomach so severely, that she doesn't even notice the legitimate hunger pangs under layers upon layers of the borrowed hangover. it won't occur for several more hours that her misery is a choice, and even then the pounding headache will persist. stumbling out into the red glare of the hyrypian sun proves to be a mistake, but there's a sorrow in the air that hangs like rot. she can't sit idly, she needs to move.
but a vaguely familiar presence presses into her pounding skull, and effectively freezes her in her shuffled tracks. it's lakshmi, she realizes before even looking around to see the other woman beckon her to follow, and a part of clarke flinches — already drowning in her own emotions, not ready to chance an invasion of foreign ones.
for a long moment, she watches the other woman's retreating shoulders. considers pressing on her own path, maybe dry heaving behind a boulder. but the urgency tethered in the air between them eventually tugs are clarke's rib cage. she's several seconds behind pushing through the tent flaps, and sways slightly on her feet just inside the safety of shadows. )
no subject
but a vaguely familiar presence presses into her pounding skull, and effectively freezes her in her shuffled tracks. it's lakshmi, she realizes before even looking around to see the other woman beckon her to follow, and a part of clarke flinches — already drowning in her own emotions, not ready to chance an invasion of foreign ones.
for a long moment, she watches the other woman's retreating shoulders. considers pressing on her own path, maybe dry heaving behind a boulder. but the urgency tethered in the air between them eventually tugs are clarke's rib cage. she's several seconds behind pushing through the tent flaps, and sways slightly on her feet just inside the safety of shadows. )
Did you need something?