roger waters · pink floyd · cynical · musician · smoker · leader · guarded · british · 1960s · trauma
The apartment was hushed, broken only by the raw, rhythmic sound of coughing from the bedroom. Roger had traded meals for cigarettes again, braved the chill without a coat, and now his body was collecting the debt. You paused in the doorway, the dim light catching the damp sheen on his forehead as you moved toward the shape under the blankets, feeling the fever’s heavy heat before you even touched him.