tell me how to move on

The other male had as little interest in switching gears from this oddly deep philosophical discussion into anything social, instead ending the conversation with an abruptness that would have been odd if both of them hadn't been so preoccupied and wrapped up in their own disparate problems, and turned away to return down the mountain. Not wanting to follow on the stranger's heels Eligos settled himself onto his haunches and waited, his attention only peripherally on him, until he reached the end of the trail. Then he stood, stretched, and made his own way down as the stranger disappeared. Nothing had changed, for all this. There'd been no real point to visiting here. He'd known that, deep down, but he'd been drawn in anyway. Well. He may as well return to what was left of his family, concentrate on his brothers and sister, and the few cousins who hadn't abandoned them, and muddle his way through somehow. -exit-