Look at an object 20 ft away from you for 20 seconds, you need to kill time anyway. Get a loading screen during a game? Same thing. Just got tired of scrolling and blanked out for a sec? Same thing.
AInd tonight I had a dream in which I visited my main character and vented to him about it. already had that story planned but I started hating it due to how much happened and how blocked I was everytime I tried to continue with it – so I decided to start from 0)
I don’t know where this fits in my story yet, but I keep seeing a scene where Conquest finally breaks. The millennia of PTSD have finally caught up with him, and the flood of emotions awakened by being around humans forces him to remember things he thought he buried long ago.