Marley watched him stiffly turn his back to her and head for the path. She found herself unable to move her own feet for a long minute. Long enough to see that Aiden's pace was confident and controlled for his first couple of steps, before he paused and stopped moving again, right before the tree-line met the path. She stared at Aiden's broad back as he held his breath. She waited. Waited for him. What was she waiting for?
Clearly, nothing at all. Aiden's strides didn't falter again as he re-entered the path towards the mess hall, while Marley stumbled after him on shaky legs. - She pondered over Alec's odd behaviour before the movie but it seemed futile once she and Aiden entered the mess hall. Struggling to see around his back suddenly obstructing her view of, well, anything in front of
