( it's like groping around in a pitch black room, stumbling into a wall and aligning herself with it to better reach the door. finding commonalities among various members of the nest is always something of a pleasant surprise, providing insights — maybe a glimmer of the logic behind why they were all grouped together, and lending to her increasing suspicion that none of them had been saved from the enemy just because the hivemind could. who better to circumvent the end of the multiverse than those who were familiar with world endings?
clarke's looking at him harder now, entire body angled to give november her full attention. despite the obstructed line of sight, everything about her demeanour still manages to be piercing; thoughts honed and chin tilted just enough that if they weren't wearing veils they'd be making solid, heady eye contact.
if she strains and allows the pigment of his thoughts to color a mirrored self portrait, clarke can even formulate a hint of what the man looks like beneath layers of fine cloth. those eyes she's staring at so intently, she'd bet they were blue. )
But they didn't kill everyone? ( that's a little at odds with her idea of how apocalypses usually went. sure, there could be survivors, but enough that the world hadn't abandoned their civilized outlook and still had mafias or old world languages like russian? that's different. )
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clarke's looking at him harder now, entire body angled to give november her full attention. despite the obstructed line of sight, everything about her demeanour still manages to be piercing; thoughts honed and chin tilted just enough that if they weren't wearing veils they'd be making solid, heady eye contact.
if she strains and allows the pigment of his thoughts to color a mirrored self portrait, clarke can even formulate a hint of what the man looks like beneath layers of fine cloth. those eyes she's staring at so intently, she'd bet they were blue. )
But they didn't kill everyone? ( that's a little at odds with her idea of how apocalypses usually went. sure, there could be survivors, but enough that the world hadn't abandoned their civilized outlook and still had mafias or old world languages like russian? that's different. )