If she had the time to think about it, it's not the word she'd have chose. Exhausted implies there was something to deplete (as if her energy had ever been full) and that she was finished (which she most certainly was not). Sometimes, problems fall out of the sky. Sometimes, things you've been avoiding for a long time come to a head with your best friend.
So she resolves something. That she's not losing another best friend. That she's not going to ignore this problem to get bigger and bigger behind closed doors.
It's been a year. It's time she do better.
She looks around for him, at his room, in tearooms, quiet spaces she knows he'll take refuge, until she spots his coat flutter behind a bookshelf and she follows quietly to where he's built his escape.]
runs right in here
If she had the time to think about it, it's not the word she'd have chose. Exhausted implies there was something to deplete (as if her energy had ever been full) and that she was finished (which she most certainly was not). Sometimes, problems fall out of the sky. Sometimes, things you've been avoiding for a long time come to a head with your best friend.
So she resolves something. That she's not losing another best friend. That she's not going to ignore this problem to get bigger and bigger behind closed doors.
It's been a year. It's time she do better.
She looks around for him, at his room, in tearooms, quiet spaces she knows he'll take refuge, until she spots his coat flutter behind a bookshelf and she follows quietly to where he's built his escape.]
... Ford? Uhm... h-hey.