Everything was falling to pieces. What.. are you talking about? I had.. hell of a time here. That.. that's what I.. try to say. He gasped against the ball of panic that began to force its way down his throat again, making it hard to breathe. I thought you'd been.. hurt, or-- It was impossible to think about that. The idea was too repulsive, even with her being so furious at him for..well, it was hard for him to understand anything right now.
Glisseo, please.. The last thing she said to him forced him onto his belly. It was too late. He'd never stand again. He was less than dirt. Enthbril's mouth moved to speak, then stopped. He tried again. I.. I don't think anybody can care about me. He shut his eyes against the hot tears that were coming back as he lay there and wondered to himself if anything mattered anymore.

It didn't seem to him like he'd accused her of anything except for--well, maybe he had, but it was very clear that this wasn't the time to say much of anything if he wanted to keep his head. Things were so volatile between the two that it worried him immensely about their current situation and their future, if there was any possibility now that they would share it together. Enthbril couldn't understand her reaction to his being emotional; he was an emotional kind of stag and his family (and what few friends he had) hardly ever got worked up when he cried.
His ears cupped towards the different tone to her voice before flopping against the sides of his head when she called his statement "selfish." The cogs back in his mind had begun to turn with what he'd said: his mom hadn't meant to leave him when he was a fawn, but she did. Even before that, his dad left. He hadn't spoken to his grandmother in a long time so he assumed she didn't care about him anymore, and it seemed like all of the other deer he'd come into contact to moved on with their lives after meeting him. Was that going to keep happening to him? It might as well He thought.

Her hoof on his body brought him from the murky depths of those unhelpful thoughts of his. Enthbril looked up at her and felt his heart drop into his belly when he saw that she couldn't bring herself to look at him. The pond wasn't so far away, but it seemed miles from where they were.
Enthbril pulled himself onto his belly and inched his way to his full height where he stood quaking with exhaustion. He was able to take half a step forward before he had to stop as a prickly and numbing sensation ran all up and down his legs. It's going to take a.. while. He laughed bitterly, staring at the ground.

It was an impossibility to allow himself to lean against her, but there he was doing the very thing, shuffling rather than walking normally so that he was less in danger of tripping and falling. Enthbril kept his focus down on the ground so that seeing what little progress they'd made wouldn't discourage him enough to make him want to stop again. She'd been in the human world. That was where she belonged, and she could have stayed.. that made him feel a little better.
Had no idea that was possible. His voice was soft as well. I.. assumed the worst. The whole situation didn't seem right. But I'm glad you were able to come back-- Enthbril thought to himself that she didn't want to hear about his emotions right then, so he snapped his mouth shut.

Glisseo's discomfort with her own thoughts was tangible to Enthbril and made him feel uneasier than he already did. He didn't like to keep his feelings to himself so much because he hadn't learned how to release them in any way other than just letting them go whenever he felt them. What was he going to do if something else happened to her? Gods.. just stop thinking about that! he snapped internally to himself. He needed to do something else, so he decided to try quickly glancing over at her. Enthbril frowned to himself when he saw the look on her face, but he was lost as to what he could do to help.
She did? Relief washed over when they'd shifted the topic of conversation to somebody who wasn't either of them. How..? He felt reluctant asking her about it, thinking that it would remind her that she could just leave him there. But a light curiosity about the human world and its culture began dancing around his head and tried to spill out of his mouth all at once in a waterfall.

A portal? His head lifted a little to watch her as they continued their slow trek. It really sounded as if the Gods made sure it was not an easy thing to do, but there was still a way in and out of the Forest. At the very least, that meant it would take her some premeditating to leave him if she ever wanted to. Doubt threatened to fill his own heart, but he knew worrying wasn't going to accomplish anything here. He needed to focus on the here and now with her. Enthbril prodded behind a drooping ear of hers with his nose. Hey.. No other words formed. A shadow of a smile twitched along his mouth as he poked her again, this time resting his nose for a moment before he gently pulled away.

Enthbril had been too busy taking in the beauty of the water in front of them to have prepared for the push, so it went without saying that he fell quite magnificently into the water which, thankfully, cushioned some of his fall. It wasn't that deep where they were but he still came up spluttering. When has this happened before? Enthbril snorted jovially at her as he pulled himself out of the water. Just then he saw his reflection and lay down in the water so quickly that it slapped his stomach painfully: his ribs and hipbones were quite prominent with his fur plastered against himself like that. His eyes darted over to her, hoping she hadn't noticed.

The water lapping all around him triggered a half-remembered time very early in his life. It was more feeling than anything else and trickled through his consciousness like sand through fingers. That left him with a little smile on his face, though he didn't know what it was. Reflections of the rippling water danced under his chin as he bent his neck low to drink a little. Delicious. He felt like draining the entire pond but remembered some deer remarking to him that when he did have a chance to eat and drink that he should take in small but frequent quantities. Though his throat cried for more, Enthbril only took a few more gulps.

Aww.. Thank you, Kimi <3
If his family all doesn't reformulate soon, I'll have to boost up his activity levels a bit.

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