[pre-milliways: If you get knocked down get up again / we ain't a-gonna grieve no more.]It's a shock, having a body again. Between one step and another, even.
There's all these things you don't realize you feel, like the earth under your feet and the air against your skin and the clothing you're wearing and knots of muscle in your back and the grit in your eyes and the cold Coke can in your hand. Shit, it's even moist.
And it's a bigger shock to realize you're not in the body you've broken in, broken down, built up. There's no gray in this beard; hell, there's no beard. The muscles might be knotted but the bones haven't been cracked and broken and splintered. Everything seems new and fresh and God above,
good. He has an arm and he can move it. He has feet and he can step. He has
eyes and he closes them for a moment just because he
can.
And it's great. It's... it's the greatest relief he's ever felt.
Until he realizes where he is.
I can't tell them.There's a slight misstep as he makes his way to the bar.
I can't tell them anything.Just one.
I can't--Before he sits at the counter and, feeling like it's all at once the most amazing and the most terrible thing in the world, makes his order.
No goodbyes. No help. I can't tell them what's to come. I can't tell them anything."Coffee."
[ooc: if your character is psychic, please ping] [1:41pm: pause needed; work is being evil] [tentatively back; still at work, though]