-FLUTTERING LASHES-
He gazed at the screen through tired eyes, feeling a fluid layer film behind them. Shaking his head with a new plan set in mind, he stood up after a few taps of the mouse. Restless feet skimmed the marble floor of the library, looking for a book to sting his eyes through and a chair to slump his bum on.
'Sing. Fly. Laugh' hummed his jaded head, nails gliding through a shelf of neatly standing books, all failing to interest the blank void filling him.
'Hn' he winced, rubbing the ends of his sleeve against a soft stream of tears trailing down his cheeks. He let him self blink a few times. Then he smiled to himself.
'Much better' he thought.