glass tears on a porcelain face, scratching makeup perfectly made
Hotaru’s ears are human no longer, catlike senses acute, and the muscle in her cheek twitches with the decaying desire to smile at the sound of Lilly’s paws on the other side of the door. It accomplishes nothing visually; any ability to smile has been burned out of her.
The door opens with a rush of warmth, and she isn’t sure if it’s the heating of the house or Sah’s reaction. Talyson had held her on the frozen steps to her house, Deimos cradled in his lap before the hearth, and somehow they had both been different. While they’d both been ready and willing to provide her with the intimacy of their embrace, there had been no immediacy, allowing Hotaru to come to them. A different sort of kindness, one she would never be unappreciative of, but Sah’s immediate embrace the second he lays eyes on her breaks something inside her that dearly needed to be broken.
His affections are met with a sudden, painful reaction that even Hotaru couldn’t have anticipated. Stoicism and silence burn away like flash paper, leaving her scalded with the sudden forceful wake of emotion that sweeps her away as a hoarse, broken sob leaves her throat. Hands rising to cling to his back as the tears come fast and unexpected, each breath a heaving shudder of desperation. Words fall away as what few barriers that had remained shatter irreparably, leaving her bare and wounded.
The door opens with a rush of warmth, and she isn’t sure if it’s the heating of the house or Sah’s reaction. Talyson had held her on the frozen steps to her house, Deimos cradled in his lap before the hearth, and somehow they had both been different. While they’d both been ready and willing to provide her with the intimacy of their embrace, there had been no immediacy, allowing Hotaru to come to them. A different sort of kindness, one she would never be unappreciative of, but Sah’s immediate embrace the second he lays eyes on her breaks something inside her that dearly needed to be broken.
His affections are met with a sudden, painful reaction that even Hotaru couldn’t have anticipated. Stoicism and silence burn away like flash paper, leaving her scalded with the sudden forceful wake of emotion that sweeps her away as a hoarse, broken sob leaves her throat. Hands rising to cling to his back as the tears come fast and unexpected, each breath a heaving shudder of desperation. Words fall away as what few barriers that had remained shatter irreparably, leaving her bare and wounded.
