#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙰𝙽𝚂𝚆𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳 . so this is the world. i’m not in it.
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▬▬ norman . @wynsm says : ❝ hold my hand tight . ❞ reference : [ x ]
there’s things he made peace with that, weirdly, open back up like hardly - healed scabs at the strangest provocations, not always as poetically soggy as having had his head propped against the glass, eyes on his own reflection &. trailing a fingertip down the bridge of his nose, wondering if it wasn’t only him starting to see mom’s shape in his bones. ( or if that, any part of that, was bookended with a stubborn sprouting bud of long - killed wishful thinking . ) maybe it’s only a funny coincidence that, with blood, and hair, and brains, they’d also come to share a bias towards plucking emma’s life from the stack of sacrifices ------- at least as according to which set of rules’d come chained to their necks. a wishful thought, an objective idea that this story could’ve been written with some perfect fairytale loophole in mind, for a mama to legally salvage their own kin with a damning shove towards inheriting a bigger cage &. a shiny new cut open chest . . . well, 𝚒𝚏 𝚑𝚎’𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕. there’s a bump, and ray’s head bumps the glass with it, spoiling the rueful smile that’d come to split across his face into a performative scowl for all the little chittering giggles of surrounding siblings eager to tease, buzzing and quick to exit the bus once it’d rolled to a final park.
nah ---- taken for granted as immovable fact that ray’d never know their mom’s path, wouldn’t live a life anything like the miserable survival she’d scraped together off stepping stones molded with bleeding vida flowers, even after amending the expiration on his life span from twelve to who the hell knows now, and yet . . . and yet when he’s crouched down with a knee on the dirty sidewalk to wipe the kids’ faces, to double - knot their shoe laces before giving them the go ahead &. strayed to watch them zig - zag in unbridled joy past the haunted house sign, a glance at his own reflection tugged his mind back to mama for something very beyond matters of hair and bone structure. and when norman comes sidling near with a filled backpack rattling &. diablerie lacing his silver tone, ray'd flipped the top of his knuckles under norman’s offered palm in scoffed rebuke, digs in the blunt of his elbow between ribcage and t - shirt seams, and shuffles in after where the eventided sunlight swallowed into an artificial pitch black.
distraction has him slow &. idle, minding less the sticky floors or dangly plastic carnage littered like bread crumbs through the attraction, more following the ping - ponging of children’s full bodied startles, and the way those shrieks tattered into bubbling exhilarated delight / the way ray’d predict a heavy sleep that night ( &. already it sways him, leaden his heavy eyes until he’d paused with a hand braced to the nearest wall and came away with ropey fake spider webs caught around his sleeves ) feeling assured, blanketed in the up to date comfort that these children’d somehow still salvaged a healthy relationship with fear. it reminds him, god does it remind him ! shards of festering, bleeding resentments , the loss of bliss in the double edged sword of having always pushed back the rot of reality where it wouldn’t need to stain his friends the way it’d done him, bitterness of childhood &. the severed link of the love of a parent still shoved from every scintillation where it deserved to just . . . melt.
maybe, just because. because when the kids come running circles around them in their idle chaperoning through the maze of dark &. revving chainsaws pasted straight from the few horror movies they’d watched so far, there’s don chasing after, emma’s laughter in her hands, and gilda's good natured reprimanding, too. ( 𝙾𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙸𝚉𝙴𝙳 : the trial and error of rinsing and repeating / to take the same path anyway, feel the same things regardless, to love so unconditionally without going down that crappy sharp left, or carrying all the weight of atlas on his shoulders alone ) ; in ripping the soles of his sneakers from their sticky pool of red corn syrup, ray drops his head, mottled eyes veiled unnecessarily in swathes of lightlessness &. the hang of his own hair, and as casually as a passing bump of shoulders in stepping by to follow the crowd, he slips his hand in norman’s. squeezes tight. says without saying .
#halloweeny#* takes that norman / leslie parallel with my filthy little hands *#wynsm#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙸𝙽 . all that’s left alive here is me.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙰𝙽𝚂𝚆𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳 . so this is the world. i’m not in it.
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▬▬ norman . @wynsm says : ❝ it’s an adventure , ray , it’s good for you . ❞ reference : [ x ]
rejecting them is easy - or, got easy. that mindlessly typical status quo built up with time like a brick wall, another ‘ 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 ’ stacked on the pile : ray stops playing, and they stop asking, for all the lazier days when they’re not spoiling for a sales pitch that’d go waved off like smoke with a dismissive flap of his hand. there’s a few hundred books left to burn through &. only so much sunlight before the end, only so much time to waste when norman’s shadow’d come pleasantly strolling, blotting out the words on the page, and pulls ray’s eyes up with some reluctance to reward that. elbows coming to prop on bent knees, it’d be a hard sigh to swallow if ray wanted to reel away that sharpened prickle crawling up his insides, if norman’s feelings needed cushioning ( but, he doesn’t. and, they don’t . ) “ what’s so adventurous about that ? ” &. it isn’t tag this time, at least, at least the carbon copy of their every - day’d kept them all inventive in their scrambled choice of games, hodge - podge treasure hunts with nonsense rules, or just thinly - disguised competitions -----
“ we all know the forest, and each other, like the back of our hands. so i know that you know , ” &. with his book snapped shut and fingers curled to point, ray’d leaned in a bit, further into the draw of norman’s growing little smile “ that don just wants a game he can beat you at . he’ll try too hard and overthink it, and probably bury his treasure in the dirt somewhere. emma’d play it fair first, so the little ones have a chance, and you . . . ” would’ve been funny in some ironic way, suddenly acknowledging the total disparity, the buoyant little burst in interested animation where an otherwise dull - edged glassiness’d had him gripped all the while of having been pushing through a book that wasn’t appealing to him in the least / 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝’𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗’𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚗 . ray just closes his teeth on the hard end of a laugh &. drops his head, reaching again to flip through the pages. “ anyway. pass. just tell me how it went after. ”
#babies! as a treat#vague allusion to the minerva coordinate hunting but only bc i said so#bc i'm a lazy writer ~#wynsm#.⠀ ○ ◟ 𝙸𝙽 . ⁝ all that’s left alive here is me.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙰𝙽𝚂𝚆𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳 . so this is the world. i’m not in it.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙸𝙽 . all that’s left alive here is me.
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#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙸𝙽 . all that’s left alive here is me.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙾𝚄𝚃 .#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙰𝙽𝚂𝚆𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙳 . so this is the world. i’m not in it.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃 . made words an arrow that only i can aim.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝚂𝚃𝚄𝙳𝚈 . he is the world‚ and the world is him.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝚂𝙴𝙻𝙵 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙾 .#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙾 .#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙱𝙸𝙱𝙻𝙸𝙾𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙷𝚈 . the backyard’s full of bones.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝚁𝙴𝙵𝙻𝙴𝙲𝚃 . forgive my habit. it knows my grave’s size.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙲𝚁𝙰𝙵𝚃 . all your ribs are still your own.#. ◟ [ ○ ] 𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙽 . all day i’ve been a bell‚ ringing.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚎𝚖𝚖𝚊 . when death takes my hand‚ i'll hold yours with the other.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 . the blood on your hands reminds me of mine.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝 . forgive my habit. it knows my grave’s size.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚖𝚊𝚖𝚊 . the love you gave to me was only just second-hand.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚓𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚖𝚊 . your one wild and precious life.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 . her hair‚ the sun between my fingers.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚢 . the grass where you lay left a bed in your shape.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚢𝚞𝚞𝚐𝚘 . your shadow follows me all day‚ making sure i’m okay.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚓𝚞 . love the world‚ like we should.#. [ ⚘ ] 𝚖𝚞𝚓𝚒𝚔𝚊 . the universe loved her.
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