MABEL
Maybe –
Maybe they were entirely capable.
Maybe they were destined for something.
Maybe they just had to find it.
She nodded in response, the first etchings of a smile wrapping around her mouth. “And we just have to find it.” Discover it. Dig in with both hands and wrap their fingers, their fists, in the glory of the beginning, in the rapture of the reverie.
Refreshed and replenished, there wasn’t any more they could truly do here. “Let’s go then.” A beckoning, a calling, a rapture on the eaves; they’d muddle their way through and become what the Brightened goddess had sanctioned for them.
{FIN}
Maybe they were entirely capable.
Maybe they were destined for something.
Maybe they just had to find it.
She nodded in response, the first etchings of a smile wrapping around her mouth. “And we just have to find it.” Discover it. Dig in with both hands and wrap their fingers, their fists, in the glory of the beginning, in the rapture of the reverie.
Refreshed and replenished, there wasn’t any more they could truly do here. “Let’s go then.” A beckoning, a calling, a rapture on the eaves; they’d muddle their way through and become what the Brightened goddess had sanctioned for them.
{FIN}
I bare my teeth
and stretch my claws out
and stretch my claws out