her fingers twitch absently, like she's debating pulling away — drawing back in on herself physically and emotionally. but that feels cowardly and wrong, leaving just because the prompted conversation was leaning a little too close to personal. they lived in a world of personal. )
I'm not that interesting. ( ha. ) I was born on a space station, kind of like the one we all came down from, but older. My mother was the Chief Medical Officer on board, and my father was the Senior Environmental Engineer.
( those are the bare bones that make up the skeletons in her closet. it seems so simple when recited in a flat, practiced tone. distant and far off, like it's been twenty years since the ark. it's only really been a few months. clarke shifts from kneeling to sitting with her legs crossed, elbows on her knees shoulders hunched. )
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her fingers twitch absently, like she's debating pulling away — drawing back in on herself physically and emotionally. but that feels cowardly and wrong, leaving just because the prompted conversation was leaning a little too close to personal. they lived in a world of personal. )
I'm not that interesting. ( ha. ) I was born on a space station, kind of like the one we all came down from, but older. My mother was the Chief Medical Officer on board, and my father was the Senior Environmental Engineer.
( those are the bare bones that make up the skeletons in her closet. it seems so simple when recited in a flat, practiced tone. distant and far off, like it's been twenty years since the ark. it's only really been a few months. clarke shifts from kneeling to sitting with her legs crossed, elbows on her knees shoulders hunched. )
He's dead now.