[He sounds relieved. Genuinely, rawly so. The shadow must be whispering truly terrible things for sounding like that...
He notices that Dirk isn't embracing him back, but he's also not pushing him away, so he just remains as he is. A return hug would be nice, but he's so tired and thoroughly fucked out that he doesn't care enough to be offended or hurt or anything else. He relaxes further hearing that the shadow is gone and melts more into Dirk, sighing into his chest, closing his eyes.]
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[He sounds relieved. Genuinely, rawly so. The shadow must be whispering truly terrible things for sounding like that...
He notices that Dirk isn't embracing him back, but he's also not pushing him away, so he just remains as he is. A return hug would be nice, but he's so tired and thoroughly fucked out that he doesn't care enough to be offended or hurt or anything else. He relaxes further hearing that the shadow is gone and melts more into Dirk, sighing into his chest, closing his eyes.]
Should be gone awhile.