Isla
to share the space with simple living things, infinitely suffering
"Mmmmhm," Isla hums patiently, a playful smile trying to creep across her face. "It is always going to be possible that something might happen," she adds nevertheless. "But for what it's worth, if anyone did try to abduct either of us, there would be nothing quiet about it." Not for Isla and certainly not for Fern, so Everest can sleep easy in the knowledge that his little family will assuredly wake him in the event of a catastrophe. (Yes, even a mild one).
Turning more towards him as he leans in to kiss her and giving his arm a gentle squeeze, Isla accepts the apology with ease now that her nerves aren't on a knife edge. "We recovered quickly," she says. "No harm done. And yes, please. Tea sounds go--"
Interrupted by the sort of shriek that feels like it splits the air and a flash of lightning that can only be described as eldritch in nature, to say that Isla flinches is an understatement. She finds herself huddled against Ever's side quite before she's realised it, breath caught in her throat, and behind them Fern starts to wail in earnest in the bassinet at yet another interruption. "Holy fuck," Isla breathes, still blinking away the after-image of the lightning. "What was that?"
Turning more towards him as he leans in to kiss her and giving his arm a gentle squeeze, Isla accepts the apology with ease now that her nerves aren't on a knife edge. "We recovered quickly," she says. "No harm done. And yes, please. Tea sounds go--"
Interrupted by the sort of shriek that feels like it splits the air and a flash of lightning that can only be described as eldritch in nature, to say that Isla flinches is an understatement. She finds herself huddled against Ever's side quite before she's realised it, breath caught in her throat, and behind them Fern starts to wail in earnest in the bassinet at yet another interruption. "Holy fuck," Isla breathes, still blinking away the after-image of the lightning. "What was that?"
fighting off like all creation, the absence of itself
