[A lot had come to pass in the last year since arriving, and Keith was dealing with a lot of feelings. And he'd been holding back. A lot.
And, this month, that was coming to bear. Keith was... in pain. And it wasn't just any injuries from the bad luck this month. It was everything. And the more he tried not to think about things, the more he tried to deny himself and hold back, the more pain he felt.
And the more he wanted to gouge his fingernails (claws? they'd definitely become claws by now despite the fact he was keeping them trimmed down... and, in a lot of cases, just biting them off) into his own skin. He was picking at the scabs from his scrapes that he'd gotten earlier that month from his bad luck, just barely keeping the pain at bay...]
Have Mercy
[A lot had come to pass in the last year since arriving, and Keith was dealing with a lot of feelings. And he'd been holding back. A lot.
And, this month, that was coming to bear. Keith was... in pain. And it wasn't just any injuries from the bad luck this month. It was everything. And the more he tried not to think about things, the more he tried to deny himself and hold back, the more pain he felt.
And the more he wanted to gouge his fingernails (claws? they'd definitely become claws by now despite the fact he was keeping them trimmed down... and, in a lot of cases, just biting them off) into his own skin. He was picking at the scabs from his scrapes that he'd gotten earlier that month from his bad luck, just barely keeping the pain at bay...]