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    COTY

    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


    look how the stars shine for you; rapt
    #4
    there is a dream in the space between the hammer and the nail
    ------ the dream of about-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream
    ------------ but the nail will take the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever



    He is still stumbling though this, what it means to have a son, to be a parent. His own parents were kind enough, loved him enough, but they were so wrapped in their own private tragedy that Rapt felt more like an afterthought. They had never hurt him, they had raised him and fed him. He’s heard stories since, awful things, and he supposes he is grateful.
    But it feels nothing like this, his desire to keep his son safe, to be at his side at all times, protect him from every evil, impossible as such a thing is.
    (He was only a little older than Abysm when he met the monster, Pollock with his horns, driving fear into his heart, making him kneel – and oh, how he loved it; and oh, how sick he’d be if such a thing befell his own child.)

    The world feels straightened on its axis as Abysm presses against him, close and sweet. Rapt pretends it will last forever, this closeness, that even as he grows and matures Abysm will stay like this, pressed to his shoulder, perfect and unchanging.
    I don’t know if I should have gone looking for her, he says, and Rapt sighs, pressing his muzzle again Abysm again.
    “She’s your mother,” he says, “you have a right to know her, and her you. If you didn’t look for her, you’d always wonder.”
    He doesn’t blame Abysm for doing it, but he’s so, so glad he’s returned.
    “Besides,” he says, “she can teach you how to use your gifts.”



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    look how the stars shine for you; rapt - by abysm - 05-19-2018, 09:13 PM
    RE: look how the stars shine for you; rapt - by rapt - 06-02-2018, 02:11 PM



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