I know. [ He touches her cheek tentatively, like he's waiting for her to revoke his permission to do so, and maybe he is. This is the first time he's felt like he's with Caroline, this Caroline, the real Caroline as his real self. Their remembered past outweighed by new experience, the intensity of reality.
Poe glances back again, though this time it's just to close the door. ] I came to make sure you were okay.
[ That's why he's here. The forest will keep, for now. He can go roaring off to be an idiot later, when it's daylight and he has a chance to see what's actually out there instead of rushing off into the dark.
(This is the second time, he realizes, that he's been to Caroline's place this late, and once again it strikes him as an inappropriate thought to have in the moment.)
He shakes it off. ] Do you need to eat? To eat-eat, I mean.
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Poe glances back again, though this time it's just to close the door. ] I came to make sure you were okay.
[ That's why he's here. The forest will keep, for now. He can go roaring off to be an idiot later, when it's daylight and he has a chance to see what's actually out there instead of rushing off into the dark.
(This is the second time, he realizes, that he's been to Caroline's place this late, and once again it strikes him as an inappropriate thought to have in the moment.)
He shakes it off. ] Do you need to eat? To eat-eat, I mean.