bottom of the deep blue sea

you should know, that i'm a ticking time bomb

and you're getting close

It gets no reaction, though he supposed he shouldn’t have expected one. Not as his gaze lingers along her honey brown eyes, hollow and dark like his own. His fingers curl beneath her jaw, edges of claws lightly scratching against the soft part of skin between. “Good.” He rumbles, withdrawing after a moment to glance at the light filtering through the window. “I’ll get started then.” He huffs, moving away from her and the room to go and get the rings, leaving with little more than how he arrived.

—-

A few hours later he ends up returning, a box in his hand, frustrating relevant on his face and in his bones. His own boxes, the wedding ring and his own remain in his pocket, but the engagement ring is placed in the box in his hand that he tosses onto the surface of the desk she’d been working at. It’s gold, with vibrant pink flower petals laced within, but nothing overdone and nothing special. Just something in the means of Frey not coming down to smite him.

“There. Should fit.” And if it didn’t? Well, Deimos had made it. He’s sure the man could shrink it down or make it bigger if it didn’t.

so better watch your step, because i'm about to blow

and where the pieces land i guess we'll never know

SuNJATA