VESPER
The whisper scrapes out of her like something broken, and for a moment, Vesper does nothing at all; just watches her. The trembling. The grief she’s trying to call rage. The way her words crawl like ash through her teeth—too soft to threaten, too late to defend. And gods, if he were anyone else—if he were even who he’d been weeks ago—he might’ve flinched. But this woman isn’t the one who’d bitten him beneath starlight and dared him to fight her for more.
"Yeah well, I've seen enough, he says quietly, the shadows curling again around his wrists. They don’t lash out—don’t need to—instead stretching like hunger, like warning, like restraint dressed in black. His voice, when it comes, is dry and flat. "Enough to see the difference between who you used to be and the fucking violet haze you're hobbled by these days."
He shifts his weight slightly, not toward her—never toward her—but enough to break the moment’s stillness. "Whatever’s whisperin’ in your skull, Thal? It ain’t leavin’ you much room for the parts that mattered."
And then, finally, a quiet shrug. "That’s what I know."
"Yeah well, I've seen enough, he says quietly, the shadows curling again around his wrists. They don’t lash out—don’t need to—instead stretching like hunger, like warning, like restraint dressed in black. His voice, when it comes, is dry and flat. "Enough to see the difference between who you used to be and the fucking violet haze you're hobbled by these days."
He shifts his weight slightly, not toward her—never toward her—but enough to break the moment’s stillness. "Whatever’s whisperin’ in your skull, Thal? It ain’t leavin’ you much room for the parts that mattered."
And then, finally, a quiet shrug. "That’s what I know."
wake me when it's over
like a bad dream
like a bad dream
☆ has a pale star tattoo beneath his left eye, and freckle-sized constellations move across his skin
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
