@bloodlett * [ glazed over gaze snaps from the arguing figures on the screen before the two to the woman sitting just a foot away from her, a few seconds of vicious yelling on stifled volume & the loud hum of the air conditioning filling her silence while she slowly blinked clarity back into deadened features. she just let aurora in for coffee about twenty minutes ago, & maybe they were there as friends, sitting in one another’s company and just.. being. still, their transgressions and responsibilities lingered in the air, & whether or not they acknowledged them at one point or another something would give. it was giving right now. ] .. huh? oh, i um. i— [ had she eaten today? ] probably. not.