there exists a tipping point between gods and monsters
Flora, for all the ways Jack has learned to tell her thoughts apart from all others, for all the things she's given him without either of them realising, gods but she may as well be a speck on the wind to the goddess unfurling before him. The captain has bitten his tongue in an effort to keep his teeth from chattering, his limbs from trembling, and as Safrin's fingers slip into his hair and her power rattles through his marrow like the birth of a galaxy, it's all he can do to behold her.
Forever isn't long enough to worship you, he whispers, his lips flinching with the words he has no chance of saying. Forever doesn't come close. Raw like a joint with the cartilage rubbed away, it's bone on bone as the captain hears her voice once more, feels the serpentine squeeze of her inside his chest. "I love you," he rasps. It's as easy as breathing had been, once upon a time, and Jack doesn't even know if it's a lie.
What is love, after all, but a promise of forever?
Forever isn't long enough to worship you, he whispers, his lips flinching with the words he has no chance of saying. Forever doesn't come close. Raw like a joint with the cartilage rubbed away, it's bone on bone as the captain hears her voice once more, feels the serpentine squeeze of her inside his chest. "I love you," he rasps. It's as easy as breathing had been, once upon a time, and Jack doesn't even know if it's a lie.
What is love, after all, but a promise of forever?
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
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