i will cut the dragon's feet

central continent - alternia

p. while driving or in/around a car.

Hadean doesn’t snore.

He barely breathes when he’s asleep, and it’s fucking weird; you keep looking over just to make sure his chest is still rising, but there’s not so much as a goddamn whistle to let you know he’s there. If you didn’t look, he might as well not be there.

You don’t like that thought. Hadean wanders off all the time, sure, but you’ve adjusted to driving time being you and him. It’s been, what, actual factual perigees since you rented this van and started traveling with him? Used to be you’d turn off your phone and refuse to chatter to anybody when you were driving! It was just you, and the road, and whatever godawful tunes came onto the radio that you could holler along to.

But now you’re sitting here, checking every five seconds just to make sure Hadean’s breathing, because now silence is weird. You’ve gotten used to him chattering constantly! Or the click of him fucking around with his phone, or talking to other folks, or something.

There’s plenty of room on the side of the road to pull over, and it’s all country as far as the eye can see. So you pull over, turning off the car, and curl up in your seat. The silence is weird, but everything feels weird right now, and there’s one way to fix that. Hadean’s sleeping. Well! So can you.

At least until he gets up.