River wasn't walking so much as she was re-tracing her exact steps. Invisible footprints left invisible marks on the cold floor leading to the Sun Room, impressions of something that nobody else could care to see. They would all walk the same paths, again and again until they didn't have to walk anymore. They would just have to remember.
Strange that, in re-tracing her steps, she would come upon someone that she hadn't seen before. A man. A boy. Half of both with fluctuating personalities and honest bits and delusions and truths. He was everything about what made a boy a boy and a man a man. She didn't realize until a moment later that she'd stopped, and she didn't realize that she was looking at him for a whole twenty-six seconds until something was said.
"No one's playing today. He's all alone," River mused quietly, head tilted just slightly to one side as she peered at him.
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Strange that, in re-tracing her steps, she would come upon someone that she hadn't seen before. A man. A boy. Half of both with fluctuating personalities and honest bits and delusions and truths. He was everything about what made a boy a boy and a man a man. She didn't realize until a moment later that she'd stopped, and she didn't realize that she was looking at him for a whole twenty-six seconds until something was said.
"No one's playing today. He's all alone," River mused quietly, head tilted just slightly to one side as she peered at him.