Accidental Meeting

It felt like a typical afternoon for Klef, just her and her trusty stick navigating through the woods. Though she had wished she had spent more time in the forest, she had a good idea of where everything was, good enough to at least be able to still spend her afternoons here. There was still plenty of things to observe and explore, like how it smelled strongly of pine in certain areas moreso than others. She used these kinds of observations to get around better, and so far it was going okay.

Klef let her feet dig into the dirt and kicked them out each time she made a step causing dust to fly everywhere. She would probably be more concerned if she could actually see the mess that she was making. In a strange sense, she had more freedom to do as she wished without sight, it wouldn't matter to her whether her clothes would get dirty anymore.

" Klef is that you?" She instinctively jumped back, believing it to be someone else, though she should have known better since he didn't appear to be angry. It was a bit of a relief to know that it was just James. Over the course of a month she had been prying him away from her, she could handle everything just fine on her own and he seemed to the only person to believe otherwise.

" James," she repeated, still keeping her guard up, she couldn't keep running away from him, both literally and metaphorically. " Fancy seeing you here... what are you doing around here anyways, don't you have friends?"

" Oh, I see," Klef replied, nodding along. The more she thought about it, he did teleport quite often these days, it only made sense that he would take advantage of such a spacious forest.

Klef tilted her head, surprised that he even considered a friend after all that had happened." Are you for real?" She asked, unsure of whether he was just saying that just to be nice. Usually it would be flattering to be told that someone cared about her, but all she could feel was guilt. Her stomach was churning, she was handling this by her self, and it was going great, yet she knew it wasn't right to keep pushing away everyone. It would be too easy to go back to relying on others again if she suddenly returned to her usual self, or to even tell more than a handful about her lack of sight.

His question hit her like a bullet, but it was nothing that she wasn't expecting, it came as no shock that he was picking up on her attempts to drift away. Her eyes widened and she forged a confused expression on her face, trying to act as she, herself, didn't know that she was pushing him away.

" What?" She asked, before her poker face finally gave in, softening into nothing but a look of remorse and slight panic. Her heart was racing, she hated confrontation and now it was impossible to avoid. If only she had timed her walk five minutes later, maybe she wouldn't have found herself in this uncomfortable situation.

It was about time he knew though, he needed to know the truth, even if it stung. " I guess because it's easy," she sighed, " ... you're always there for me, but I can't do anything for you. It's unfair." Even before the virus she was not physically able to do the same things that Jame's did, then the virus magnified it tenfold. Klef's shoe dug into the ground and kicked out more dirt, " I need to do things completely on my own, people just... get in the way of that."

" To answer your question, I don't entirely know why," she confessed with her head bowed down. " I just really need to figure this whole being blind thing by myself."