my held breath fills the room with blood
hurting in ways I can't describe
They are a pair of odd ducks, displaced and forgotten from their previous lives. Remembering old ways and never fully escaping their stone foundations. Haunted by days of glory and primordial ease, trying to fit themselves into social boxes that pinch and press against their souls. Trying and trying to be the people this world asks them to be, and never really succeeding. Wearing another soul's face like a shade possessing a better subject.
Alone together there are no expectations. Nobody to disappoint or fool.
Yet even here they still hold themselves rigid, never fully able to extract the steel from their marrow that has kept them standing all this time. Bending but not breaking. Unsure if breaking is even a capability of theirs that can be heralded by anything but the snapping of their mortal strands. When Deimos speaks again she can feel the vibrations of his voice through his chest, and something old and instinctual in her settles with the sensation. "Nothing you are not already giving me," she responds softly instead. Just his time, his embrace, his care. It's all she had wanted when she sought him out. Gravitating automatically to her true north, as he will always be.
Alone together there are no expectations. Nobody to disappoint or fool.
Yet even here they still hold themselves rigid, never fully able to extract the steel from their marrow that has kept them standing all this time. Bending but not breaking. Unsure if breaking is even a capability of theirs that can be heralded by anything but the snapping of their mortal strands. When Deimos speaks again she can feel the vibrations of his voice through his chest, and something old and instinctual in her settles with the sensation. "Nothing you are not already giving me," she responds softly instead. Just his time, his embrace, his care. It's all she had wanted when she sought him out. Gravitating automatically to her true north, as he will always be.
my heart bends and breaks
so many, many times
HOTARU
