"I'm fine," he said (though he wasn't). "I'm tired."
He'd meant to gently end the conversation, because he didn't want to have to talk about this any more and he certainly didn't want to have to talk about the way it made him feel. It was only a soft ending to the discussion if he was spending the night, though, and they could just drift off into silence and eventually to sleep. He'd forgotten for a moment that he wasn't, and now he realized with some slight panic that he might have to actually get up and leave because of what he'd just said. Not that he was upset about the idea of leaving at the moment — it was just that that meant having to get up and move around and interact with Macnair more, when all he wanted to do was keep laying here until he didn't feel so sick about all of this.
He'd meant to gently end the conversation, because he didn't want to have to talk about this any more and he certainly didn't want to have to talk about the way it made him feel. It was only a soft ending to the discussion if he was spending the night, though, and they could just drift off into silence and eventually to sleep. He'd forgotten for a moment that he wasn't, and now he realized with some slight panic that he might have to actually get up and leave because of what he'd just said. Not that he was upset about the idea of leaving at the moment — it was just that that meant having to get up and move around and interact with Macnair more, when all he wanted to do was keep laying here until he didn't feel so sick about all of this.
Set by Lady!