[ the light from the lanterns flicker in and out of his vision as the bit of wind picks up, their shadows merged, dancing crazily, eerily on the brick wall opposite - long limbed, strange sinuous shapes thrown up on the rough brick and mortar. his eyes burn with the motion, sending jagged edges of pain from nerves pinched with the stimulation, and Heine straightens up a little to retreat back to the shadows.
a slow breath, in, out, count to four.
almost like back home, isn't it? something familiar to fall back on, the banter, the fangs, the eyes staring back into his sharp as needles even while veiled out of sight. maybe that's the simple heart of the problem (but no problems are ever simple) - that this is something familiar, old as blood dried under his nails, as old as the floral bitter sting of antiseptic, as old as eternity. this is, after all, the only things they have truly known how to be. down to the bare bones, now, if only to sharpen their teeth on each other. ]
Don't [ his voice is like brittle snap of a branch, like a crack of a whip ] Don't you fucking dare, Giovanni.
[ it's not meaningless. none of it. if he turned his face away from what happened, from what he had done, then
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a slow breath, in, out, count to four.
almost like back home, isn't it? something familiar to fall back on, the banter, the fangs, the eyes staring back into his sharp as needles even while veiled out of sight. maybe that's the simple heart of the problem (but no problems are ever simple) - that this is something familiar, old as blood dried under his nails, as old as the floral bitter sting of antiseptic, as old as eternity. this is, after all, the only things they have truly known how to be. down to the bare bones, now, if only to sharpen their teeth on each other. ]
Don't [ his voice is like brittle snap of a branch, like a crack of a whip ] Don't you fucking dare, Giovanni.
[ it's not meaningless. none of it. if he turned his face away from what happened, from what he had done, then
what was the point? a meaningless existence. ]