[ It is surreal being back in a place that should be in shambles yet looks so untouched. Worse though is being the only one to walk its grounds. It makes Dimitri feel like he is the one who is a ghost.
His progression through the monastery is a slow one and, really, what hurry is there? There is no one else here in this world that he knows. Dimitri thought he knew solitude, thought himself well acquainted with it. The fool he was.
The apartment building, while significantly less dramatic than Aphaia, hosted more weird technology than he wished to confuse himself with tonight. Which is why, at the end of his meandering, he pushes open his old dormitory door. Something he has previously wished he could do one more time. Fool, indeed. ]
Oh.
[ He is so thrown by the other man’s existence Dimitri just stands there and stares. He registers that he should pull the door shut and quickly utter an apology for coming in without knocking, but…
But that is Yuri looking exactly as he had left him. No. That isn’t right- can’t be right, his hair is supposed to be shorter. Cheeks a little rounder. But something in his chest is telling him he’s exactly the same. Which only adds to his silent gawking. ]
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His progression through the monastery is a slow one and, really, what hurry is there? There is no one else here in this world that he knows. Dimitri thought he knew solitude, thought himself well acquainted with it. The fool he was.
The apartment building, while significantly less dramatic than Aphaia, hosted more weird technology than he wished to confuse himself with tonight. Which is why, at the end of his meandering, he pushes open his old dormitory door. Something he has previously wished he could do one more time. Fool, indeed. ]
Oh.
[ He is so thrown by the other man’s existence Dimitri just stands there and stares. He registers that he should pull the door shut and quickly utter an apology for coming in without knocking, but…
But that is Yuri looking exactly as he had left him. No. That isn’t right- can’t be right, his hair is supposed to be shorter. Cheeks a little rounder. But something in his chest is telling him he’s exactly the same. Which only adds to his silent gawking. ]