DEIMOS
ache first, but then let the cuts close
spit out the blood
spit out the blood
He’d taken many breaths. Gone to his house, poured cold water on his face, become immersed in the nonchalance when somehow all he felt was pride and betrayal and something akin to other emotions he was incapable of naming.
So when he wandered in, eyes widening upon pretenses, at Hotaru standing there, with Noah at her side, the measures of regard, satisfaction, for his friends, for all the measures and machinations they’d undertaken, simply slid through the Attuned bonds for them. Otherwise, he was a figment of shadow, wandering further into the fold to listen, to reside in some manner of calm, while the rest of Halo deciphered the meanings, the implications.
Like for the Ascended, as Sah had done. Reticent and composed, he merely folded his arms across his chest and became a part of the backdrop, a demeanor suggesting listening ears and cool, precise musings.
So when he wandered in, eyes widening upon pretenses, at Hotaru standing there, with Noah at her side, the measures of regard, satisfaction, for his friends, for all the measures and machinations they’d undertaken, simply slid through the Attuned bonds for them. Otherwise, he was a figment of shadow, wandering further into the fold to listen, to reside in some manner of calm, while the rest of Halo deciphered the meanings, the implications.
Like for the Ascended, as Sah had done. Reticent and composed, he merely folded his arms across his chest and became a part of the backdrop, a demeanor suggesting listening ears and cool, precise musings.
watch your body pull itself back together
then let your soul do the same
then let your soul do the same
