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Bornes gave another nervous sidestep before walking toward where he assumed Isiah was, based on sound. He only managed to take two steps before second guessing himself and stopping, a frown on his face.

"I'm blind," he sighed. "The sun's too bright."

Bornes wore the sunglasses to protect his eyes from light. He was a nocturnal creature; he could see perfectly at night. He could manage in the day with his heavy sunglasses, though wouldn't admit to being partially blind while he wore them. However, out here it was simply too sunny. It was a small thing Bornes simply didn't think about when he had decided to leave and it was too late to turn back now.

Quatre Bornes waved his tail nervously as he rubbed his black boot against the ground around him in a semicircle. "Is all the ground flat?"
If it was, he could just follow Isiah by sound. But if not...

He shifted uncomfortably at the thought.

Bornes' brows furrowed, and he pulled his hand from his pocket, laying both hands at his side, left still clutching the book. He gave out an uncertain grunt, but took a step forward, then another one.

Although Isiah had never crossed Bornes before, he was still hesitant to put all his trust in the man. He took another step and shifted slightly at a crack in the pavement. He recovered quickly, but he already didn't like this. Flat enough my a**, he thought to himself.

He continued forward a few more feet before growling to himself.
"You should lead me," he said.

It almost pained Bornes to think they'd have to hold hands this whole trip. It would be demeaning.

Bornes gripped Isiah's hand when it was given to him, and he nodded with a grunt of approval as they moved forward. At least in this close of proximity, Bornes could tell if what Isiah was stepping over would reach him as well.

It took a few feet to get the hang of it and to reach a quasinormal rate of speed, but once they had reached that plateau, Bornes finally snorted and gave a delayed "Thank you."

It was quickly followed by an order of sorts. "Tell me when the sun goes down."
After a pause, he asked a question. "Do you not like Benson & Hedges?"

Bornes let out a chuckle.
"Because--" he got cut off and carefully searched around with his boot for the step up, then found it, and continued.

"You seem like an avid smoker, and I assumed you would have lit up as soon as possible." He looked down slightly, trying to picture his feet as he walked. His hands were normal, human hands. Albeit a bit sweaty.

"I smoke, but not often. I was saving them fr a time when I felt I might need them. Just kept them on me the whole time." He shook his head. "The book kept me sane enough, however. Just leave me one or two... For safety's sake."

"Heh. If I had known the world was ending when I had bought the pack, I would've bought cloves instead." Those would've lasted much longer.

In response to the tonight statement, he grunted a bit uneasily. He knew he would get it back, he just wondered if he should lay out all his health issues in front of Isiah. After a few moments of thought, he supposed one or two details couldn't hurt.

"I'm nocturnal," he stated finally. "I can see perfectly in the dark, so naturally the eyes are hypersensitive to light." He gave a hmph, subconsciously squeezing Isiah's hand for reassurance as he took the next few steps.


[[So it took me like 2.5 hours to write that D< Anyway I figured Isiah may have more to ask after that, and if not... Since Isiah has to tell Q when it's dark, maybe it is better if you do the timelapse...]]

"Hrmm?"
As Bornes listened, he didn't like where it was going, but he had a witty response lined up. Well, one he supposed was witty.

"I hope you're suggesting this just to pass time," he said with slight agitation. "Because there is no need. I know that whatever you were part of before the Fallout you are not a part of now. Either that or you are simply too lazy to follow the rules when no one else in your pack is around." He took a few more steps before continuing.

"And what I am has nothing to do with our safety. I am mostly human. This blindness is probably the only weakness we will encounter of mine." He let out out an annoyed breath. Him being 'mostly human' was in the eye of the beholder. but that was neither here nor there.

"Unless you have some psychological trauma you'd like to get off your chest."

The whole situation was becoming a bit frustrating for Bornes. They were out in the wilderness and he was blind. Bornes knew his limitations and he'd been blinded by the sun far more than once. But he usually stayed put until it set, not wandered around with someone he didn't really trust in an area he wasn't familiar with.

His answers were formed both out of seriousness but also annoyance. He wanted the conversation to drop, but he also wanted to test Isiah's temper. But if Isiah had a short one, Bornes figured he'd be taking a punishment for his lapse in judgment shortly. He was, after all, the easy one to take advantage of currently.

Bornes let out a small grunt of disapproval.

"Half a pack? It was unopened when I gave it to you. I said to only leave me one or two cigarettes. You can have the rest."

He let out a loud exhale before continuing. "If you're so quick to air dirty laundry, then you can do your own first."
It was a surrender if Bornes would ever give one.