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milliways_bar2007-01-25 11:22 pm
river_meimei) wrote in milliways_bar2007-01-25 11:22 pm
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There are points in the rafters where two beams cross. Some of those points intersect with vertical supports; others don't, providing a broader flat surface at the junction.
A laptop is balanced on one. Early 21st century model, sleek and advanced for its time; a knowledgeable eye, given a close look at the specs, might notice that a few components look suspiciously... well, alien. And that a simple laptop probably shouldn't be capable of quite so many things.
River is reading something on it.
She's a huddle inside her long brown coat; her face is pale and tear-splotched, with dark circles under her narrowed eyes, and hot slow tears spill down her cheeks. But she doesn't move, except to scroll down, and she doesn't look away.
A laptop is balanced on one. Early 21st century model, sleek and advanced for its time; a knowledgeable eye, given a close look at the specs, might notice that a few components look suspiciously... well, alien. And that a simple laptop probably shouldn't be capable of quite so many things.
River is reading something on it.
She's a huddle inside her long brown coat; her face is pale and tear-splotched, with dark circles under her narrowed eyes, and hot slow tears spill down her cheeks. But she doesn't move, except to scroll down, and she doesn't look away.
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"Other worlds."
She can feel every featherweight of pressure -- of touch, of atmosphere. Her fingers spread; her palm lifts a hairsbreadth, but no more. Still touching, if barely.
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Her hand lifts. Just enough.
And
(the brush of skin against skin)
it's gone. She's only River again. She feels what she feels.
A moment later, her face is contorted, buried in Del's shoulder, and she's sobbing heartbrokenly.
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Soft and quiet and then she has both arms around River carefully, holding her close, and a soft kiss to dark hair.
Del doesn't try to quiet her.
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It's a long time before she quiets, and when she does it's exhaustion that brings it.
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But she does hold her and rest her cheek on her hair and rock her a very little bit.
She doesn't notice the tears and snot.
They stay; she just doesn't notice them.
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But she doesn't lie.
She's not human.
River trembles faintly against the Endless's thin body, slumped and exhausted and with tears leaking slowly from her closed eyes.
She doesn't hold on. Not to Del. But she leans against her, and doesn't pull away.