The most quiet shuffles seemed to echo loudly ahead of him in the stillness. It made the pause in unsteady steps far louder than simple movement should have allowed as Eraqus emerged from the hallway proper. Progress was arrested across the threshold as the Master's back straightened, and he dropped his hand from the wall.
For a moment, grey eyes rested on the direwolf. A blink followed. Then a second. If the reality of the situation had been slow in setting in before, the beast occupying the couch now caused a brief ripple of uncertainty as to the state of his own mind (never mind the world at large).
And then his attention turned to the other figure in the room, standing so stiffly.
His heart lurched painfully, echoed only in a sharp intake of breath, the slight curl of his fingers as his own stance echoed Terra's.
Part of Eraqus wondered if he should have waited. For what, exactly, he could not have said, nor for how long - it already felt as if too much time had already passed since they'd last been in such a position, even with the night's beginning having been all too unpleasant a reflection of an ending neither had wanted.
His expression was still locked in solemn severity as he tried his best to keep emotions under a tight rein, in spite of the tiredness and disorientation, and the sight of his first apprentice.
The tick-tock-tick of the clock was the only sound within the silence.
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For a moment, grey eyes rested on the direwolf. A blink followed. Then a second. If the reality of the situation had been slow in setting in before, the beast occupying the couch now caused a brief ripple of uncertainty as to the state of his own mind (never mind the world at large).
And then his attention turned to the other figure in the room, standing so stiffly.
His heart lurched painfully, echoed only in a sharp intake of breath, the slight curl of his fingers as his own stance echoed Terra's.
Part of Eraqus wondered if he should have waited. For what, exactly, he could not have said, nor for how long - it already felt as if too much time had already passed since they'd last been in such a position, even with the night's beginning having been all too unpleasant a reflection of an ending neither had wanted.
His expression was still locked in solemn severity as he tried his best to keep emotions under a tight rein, in spite of the tiredness and disorientation, and the sight of his first apprentice.
The tick-tock-tick of the clock was the only sound within the silence.