Lyra found herself looming around Red often. She was curious about him, even though he was asleep most of the time. When he was awake, he gave her the evil eye before ignoring her. In fact, he didn't seem very happy with the presence of others in general, but put up with Blue and Green. Blue fussed with him often, and Black and Lyra watched, amused, as Blue attempted to comb his matted hair or scrub the dirt from his fingernails. Sometimes he'd win and she'd leave him be, sometimes he let out a sigh of defeat and sit up. Black thought it was hilarious. Lyra thought it was kind of cute.
There was one thing she was concerned about, though. Red barely ate anything, and would mostly refuse offers for food. He was already skinny enough. Blue seemed frustrated about this and would shout at him occasionally, but she could see concern pooling in her ocean-like eyes, and understood. What she was worried about was that Red didn't. He would avert his gaze from them and look out the window whenever Blue did that.
Today was one of those days. Blue had convinced him to sit with the rest of them at the small table during dinner, at least. The first few minutes were shrouded in awkward silence, but finally Black broke the silence, huffing loudly and crossing his arms. "Are you guys /trying/ to make this weird? Look, guys, let's just figure out something to talk about, and we can go from there. I mean, Arceus."
Lyra laughed. "I guess he's right," She replied. The rest of the night played out pretty normally. Red ended up eating a decent amount of food, which seemed to lift the mood.
Everyone finally decided to go to bed after a game of Risk, which really was only between Green and Black. Nobody else really wanted to play the seemingly never-ending game. It took about 3 hours to finish, during which Blue, Lyra, and Red watched TV drowsily. 2 hours in Blue fell asleep on the floor.
Green and Black turned in, well, Green did. Black shouted with rage as his last forces were defeated and stormed off. (Lyra was surprised it didn't wake Blue up, it certainly made both herself and Red jump.) Green shrugged with a chuckle, cleaning up the tiny blocks of wood and the game board. With that he retreated to his room, leaving the three alone in the living room. Blue was kind of sprawled halfway on her sleeping bag, and Lyra sighed a bit, wondering to herself what Blue's reaction would be if she tried to move her. Probably an angry one.
Lyra decided against bothering her, and crossed her legs pretzel style. She sighed, getting up to grab a blanket from one of the closets. Coming back she just decided to lie down on the floor. It wouldn't end up hurting her back /that/ much. Rolling to her side she found Red staring at her. He blinked at her, then looked away out the window. She followed his gaze. The moon was a small sliver of a crescent. Glancing back at the other figure, she noticed he looked sort of troubled, a bit paler than usual if that's possible. Her head tilted slightly in confusion as he continued to stare out the glass barrier.
"You alright?" She asked as casually as possible, staring at the ceiling instead of at Red. This was a small problem since he wouldn't speak. Eventually a rustling of blankets caught her attention, and she glanced over to see that he had turned to the other side, facing the cushions of the couch's back frame. Sighing inwardly Lyra flipped to her side and drifted into a sleep to the sounds of rain pattering on the windows…
Or were they footsteps?
