listless

Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. __It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?_ she asked.__h, not really,_ said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. ____ going to be forgotten by someone who I can__ forget, though. That will be terrible_ but maybe it__ better if she does forget me altogether.

Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow, jerky movements of the motes that floated across her pupils. They amazed her as a child. Now she saw them as a reflection of how she moved, floating listlessly through the world, occasionally bumping into another body without acknowledgment, and then floating on, free and alone.