- NATE -
all we are, we're distant stars
lost in the dark, i know how to part
lost in the dark, i know how to part
All Nate knows is he expects something to happen. Anything. It feels right, this circle they’ve made with the basin, this strange ritual they’ve made up, and maybe that’s what makes it all the more upsetting when nothing at all happens.
His disappointment is palpable, Nate’s one eye locked to the basin as if he’s missed something, as if he’s done something wrong. He shakes his head before he speaks, voice quiet, strained. ”Nothing.” Slowly, his gaze lifts, not to Sunjata, though the blue flickers that way, but it’s only a detour on the way to the invisible ceiling.
Laughter leaves Nate, cold and stiff, a stop-block to keep from crying. Why is he surprised? Why would the stone be waiting for him, why would he think so highly of himself. His hand squeezes Sunjata’s tightly, carefully, unlike the hand still on the basin, Nate letting the edge of it dig into his hand until his body tells him to stop, until there’s a trickle of fluid bubbling around the edges of his clenched fingers.
His disappointment is palpable, Nate’s one eye locked to the basin as if he’s missed something, as if he’s done something wrong. He shakes his head before he speaks, voice quiet, strained. ”Nothing.” Slowly, his gaze lifts, not to Sunjata, though the blue flickers that way, but it’s only a detour on the way to the invisible ceiling.
Laughter leaves Nate, cold and stiff, a stop-block to keep from crying. Why is he surprised? Why would the stone be waiting for him, why would he think so highly of himself. His hand squeezes Sunjata’s tightly, carefully, unlike the hand still on the basin, Nate letting the edge of it dig into his hand until his body tells him to stop, until there’s a trickle of fluid bubbling around the edges of his clenched fingers.
searching high and low for life
a paradise, a light in your eyes
a paradise, a light in your eyes
