AHHHHHHH I was so desperate for someone to take this idea up, thank you so much!! This was gorgeous, and von Stalhein is simultaneously the best and the worst.
He viciously locked away the sense-memory of that warm lazy awakening (safe, he'd felt safe, in a way he couldn't remember feeling in a long time) and went to gather wood.
Okay, small thing, but I absolutely loved the implication that he consciously thinks of it as locking away the memory of the physical sensations, but he also knows (in a way he's not happy about looking at too hard on a conscious level) that what's actually upsetting his equilibrium, the thing he really needs to lock away, is the accompanying emotional state. It's been so long since he felt safe. Oh, Erich :(
so he goes and does something cold and uncomfortable and useful and distracting instead. Idiot.
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He viciously locked away the sense-memory of that warm lazy awakening (safe, he'd felt safe, in a way he couldn't remember feeling in a long time) and went to gather wood.
Okay, small thing, but I absolutely loved the implication that he consciously thinks of it as locking away the memory of the physical sensations, but he also knows (in a way he's not happy about looking at too hard on a conscious level) that what's actually upsetting his equilibrium, the thing he really needs to lock away, is the accompanying emotional state. It's been so long since he felt safe. Oh, Erich :(
so he goes and does something cold and uncomfortable and useful and distracting instead. Idiot.
GIVE HIM ALL THE HUGS PLEASE.