No Hand on the Reins

Adam Some things you do just to see how bad they'll make you feel Sometimes you try to freeze time 'til the slots are a blur of spinning wheels Adam laughed quietly to himself at the image of the proud woman being bundled in a net as a bird, but tried to keep it mostly contained. He felt that somehow, Kiada was not the kind who liked to be laughed at too much. As soon as she asked about marriage, he shut his eyes in regret. Why had he brought it up? It wasn't like he liked talking about it. But he'd brought it up, so he couldn't really be mad. "Er...yeah, yeah, for a bit. Few years. We divorced when I was about 24...it just didn't work out." He rubbed the back of his neck, looked off into the darkness. "Sometimes you make mistakes, you know, and you don't realise they were till you look back years later." It wasn't clear if the marriage itself was the mistake, or whatever had led to it's end. But I am just a broken machine And I do things that I don't really mean