Nightmares?

[Nox]

Her lips were soft against his and Nox smiled when she left. He watched through the dim light of the orb still floating above them. She sat back down and Nox watched until she was settled and had started on her drawings. He sat up and curled around her pulling her close to him. Touch always helped him stay tuned into his own reality. He'd missed Aurora's touch, Aria calmed him too, but that was different - that was her ability.

Nox watched the pencil move across the paper and draw - far better than his hand could do. At least at first, Aurora was more practiced than he was. Drawing monsters was something their father had made them do. Digital film captured them, but it didn't let you commit their form to memory the same. He still sucked at drawing despite his practice.

Elyse made a comment about the hobbit - he'd not read the book either, but his father had made him watch every movie ever even remotely connected to the Lord of the Rings - and many other fantasy oriented fiction books made movie - the farther from reality the better.

"How was your night with your friend? Did you have a good time?"
I spike of fear rose in Nox and he smoothed out his body from the minute tension he knew he'd done. He hadn't done anything wrong...He had wanted to, but he hadn't.

Nox smiled against her neck. "It was good to see him again. It wasn't the same without Bas. We did meet a few of Bas' thug friends though. I got called a faggot in russian - that was new."
Nox laughed quietly. "Though I might have seen a dranaika, but turns out was just a really dangerous looking girl. No attacks - so she still lives."
It wasn't a lie - just an omission of details.

Nox took the first drawing she had done and pretended to study it. He smiled at the line work. There was always something elegant in drawings. "Not bad."