MABEL
It was odd, to listen to the crack of the fire. She turned her head, followed it, into the berth and doorway of the kitchen, where the aperture opened to its wide expanse. Once housing a formidable, but struggling, family, now there were only two – and at his movement her eyes rose from the floorboards, to the smile residing there.
Maybe they were more than just a little renewed, after all.
But the question caused her eyes to widen, her brows to rise, before the calculating air of her mind took flight. Her gaze darted to the void around them, to the abyss that had represented happiness, rancor, regret, and now hollowed proportions. But it didn’t have to be that way. It didn’t have to be numb. It didn’t have to be cut away and apart.
So for once, she gave her own genuine smile – no malice, no menace, no wickedness coiled there. Perhaps it was something she wore before this world fell apart. “You can stay.” Permission for things to begin again.
{FIN <3}
Maybe they were more than just a little renewed, after all.
But the question caused her eyes to widen, her brows to rise, before the calculating air of her mind took flight. Her gaze darted to the void around them, to the abyss that had represented happiness, rancor, regret, and now hollowed proportions. But it didn’t have to be that way. It didn’t have to be numb. It didn’t have to be cut away and apart.
So for once, she gave her own genuine smile – no malice, no menace, no wickedness coiled there. Perhaps it was something she wore before this world fell apart. “You can stay.” Permission for things to begin again.
{FIN <3}
I bare my teeth
and stretch my claws out
and stretch my claws out
