Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear
So just pieces? Portions? Little samples tucked away? Her eyes went back and forth, over stone and then to the fire, briefly mesmerized like a moth, watching the surrounding hues and beams swallow, engulf, and consume. Even if it would ravage her too, she could appreciate its power. Its might. Wonder what it meant to be so strong.
Thereafter, her gaze swept sharply to Samuel again. More torn relationships and severed things, similarities between them, perhaps, give or take the reasons why. “I loved them, but we didn’t always agree.” A sigh, unnecessary but valid just the same, as she curled around arms around knees and watched the spectacle eating away at memories. “Will this help you then? To purge the reminders?” Or was it just something to try for? She didn’t know. Not while the rest of her farmhouse crumbled from the inside out; alone and empty except for her hollowed little self.
Thereafter, her gaze swept sharply to Samuel again. More torn relationships and severed things, similarities between them, perhaps, give or take the reasons why. “I loved them, but we didn’t always agree.” A sigh, unnecessary but valid just the same, as she curled around arms around knees and watched the spectacle eating away at memories. “Will this help you then? To purge the reminders?” Or was it just something to try for? She didn’t know. Not while the rest of her farmhouse crumbled from the inside out; alone and empty except for her hollowed little self.
MABEL
