Eik can feel thoughts drifting across the other man's mind, he feels when they are let go back to the darkness that is not-thought. It would be a simple thing to dive deeper into those thoughts, read them as easily as words written on paper. The man would never even know.
"Well, the sand won't talk to me."
Eik's darkness had always been channeled inwards, not out. So instead of growing irate with the decadent stallion, he silently beats at his fleshy insides where scars lie unseen,
(we add this to your long list of failures,
except we've run out of space so we
just start a tally in the corner, that first mark
|
scratched a little too deep in you)
and in that moment his guard falls a little. Maybe his magic slips out and El Toro feels, for just a moment, the weariness that fills every empty space in Eik's body. Maybe he hears the sound of Eik's heart sighing. Maybe he notices nothing at all, and Eik's magic, and all his heavy anguish, is simply swallowed in silence by the desert and its glittering snow.
"Okay." So they stand there, each with his past coiled behind him like the tail of a rattlesnake. Toro paws at the snow and Eik breathes, and the air between them is cold and dry.
"Well, the sand won't talk to me."
Eik's darkness had always been channeled inwards, not out. So instead of growing irate with the decadent stallion, he silently beats at his fleshy insides where scars lie unseen,
(we add this to your long list of failures,
except we've run out of space so we
just start a tally in the corner, that first mark
|
scratched a little too deep in you)
and in that moment his guard falls a little. Maybe his magic slips out and El Toro feels, for just a moment, the weariness that fills every empty space in Eik's body. Maybe he hears the sound of Eik's heart sighing. Maybe he notices nothing at all, and Eik's magic, and all his heavy anguish, is simply swallowed in silence by the desert and its glittering snow.
"Okay." So they stand there, each with his past coiled behind him like the tail of a rattlesnake. Toro paws at the snow and Eik breathes, and the air between them is cold and dry.
@El Toro We could leave it here or continue, totally up to you! <3
Time makes fools of us all
