(Caius)
I walked back to my quarters and closed the door behind me.
I stood in the dark and said nothing and let Vorak do what he was going to do because there was no stopping him and fighting it would only make both of us worse.
He was pushing hard.
Not the slow grinding pressure he'd maintained since the shack. This was sharper. More directed. The particular kind of pushing that came when he felt something had gone wrong and wanted to fix it and couldn't and was making me aware of that at full volume.
'We should go back,' he said.
'No,' I said.
'She was screaming, Caius.'
'I know.'
'She's alone in there.'
'She needed the space,' I said. 'So I gave it to her.'
He pushed again and I let it move through me without responding to it and after a moment it eased back slightly. Not go
