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❝ I DON’T WANT TO ‘ GET USED ’ TO THIS ! ❞ THE WORDS ARE HARDLY HIS OWN. ENRAGED, FEARFUL. Where he’d once laughed in the face of death, when faced now with the real thing – or perhaps something worse – it is only the urge to run that haunts his expression now. He’s always been a clever man, if highly irrational, and it’s slowly beginning to sink in that maybe the other isn’t lying to him. Maybe this is it. The end of the line. Maybe the show’s over. And yet the idea of stopping, accepting, growing familiar with this fate leaves his blood running cold. How cruel a punishment this is, he thinks, rage building again, but they wouldn’t keep him here. He won’t be trapped here, he won’t be, he can’t – ❝ You have no idea what I’m capable of. The things I’ve done. The things I’ll do again ! Death isn’t even real, none of it is: I've created things beyond your wildest dreams, did you know that ? ❞ His own answering laugh is shrill and panicky, the beginnings of a nervous breakdown. An overwound clock. And if Andrew mocks him, if the man says a single thing out of place or looks at him with anything other than casual disinterest, then he’ll kill him. He will.
His hysterical breath catches in his throat, and William wrenches himself silent. He hasn’t cried in years, isn’t about to start now. Like he’d done as a child, he sets his shoulders and grits his teeth, conflicted angry gaze turning back to Andrew. There really is only one question to ask, now, and it’s not one he likes. One question, one set of actions: William sits, not defeated but drained, a few yards away from the stranger, and forces out:
❝ Tell me who you are and what you know about this place. ❞
Because he’s going to get out. Even if it takes him years, even if it takes him decades, even if it takes him lifetimes. He’s not giving up so easily, and all information – even tiny details – will be invaluable to him.
CONTINUED. / @curseofbreadbear
#(( i know andrew WON'T mock him for his complete nightmare breakdown but consider ... /j BFDDFS ))#(ii) man behind the slaughter — roleplay thread.#(ui) original: lakeside#(oxo) fishing for redemption: william & andrew#a; curseofbreadbear#tw emotional distress#tw mental breakdown#tw mental instability#tw unreality#( last tag just there because of how william is speaking abt death more than anything !! )#( ask to tag. )
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