Lena
even when no one was looking
I was still kind
I was still kind
“Yes, I know,” she conceded with a huff of air, bringing hair out of her eyes, “but I don’t want to hurt you.” And that was what it really came down to all along with the Caretaker – not wishing to see harm wrought upon anyone or anything.
Grabbing from behind sent her prey instincts into molten bits and pieces, and though she granted and gave permission, the very thought had her mind instinctively yearning to flee. Wouldn’t it be easier to shift herself out of the position? To fly away? To cower and shrink and evade?
But not everything was going to be like that, and she knew this too – so fighting every urgency to breathe hastily and panic, she waited for the instructions, trying not to become so unyielding and still. There was even the merest thought of jamming her elbow into his ribs just to slither her way out –
But then she was wrapped tighter, and her nose wrinkled. “Just drop?” She squinted, striving to understand the semblances and motions of dead weight. “But what if it's still easy for me to be carted off - ?” which she left hanging, because she did as she was told – letting the substance of her form fall.
Grabbing from behind sent her prey instincts into molten bits and pieces, and though she granted and gave permission, the very thought had her mind instinctively yearning to flee. Wouldn’t it be easier to shift herself out of the position? To fly away? To cower and shrink and evade?
But not everything was going to be like that, and she knew this too – so fighting every urgency to breathe hastily and panic, she waited for the instructions, trying not to become so unyielding and still. There was even the merest thought of jamming her elbow into his ribs just to slither her way out –
But then she was wrapped tighter, and her nose wrinkled. “Just drop?” She squinted, striving to understand the semblances and motions of dead weight. “But what if it's still easy for me to be carted off - ?” which she left hanging, because she did as she was told – letting the substance of her form fall.
with all of my heart
even when it is invisible
even when it is invisible
