circumspector: (( shock ) » to swallow up the flame)
a n g e l . ([personal profile] circumspector) wrote in [community profile] station72 2016-03-29 12:58 am (UTC)

[ His fear, his violent, angry recoil hits her like a slap in the face. She hadn't meant for this - she thought - it wasn't as bad as half the things she had done, could do, lies maybe, but beautiful ones, the only ones she'd ever had. She hadn't meant to scare him, and something feels ill with his reaction.

Maybe a good thing that she couldn't hold it too much longer it felt like. The world drops, sharp and quickly. No more grass, no more sky, just him standing there alarmed, ready to fight things that weren't real, and her sitting there, the same as before, like none of it ever was. She herself turning away from that violence he seems so ready to perpetrate, never had it directed towards her.
]

I'm sorry. I didn't think it would... [ scare him like that. make him react like that. People were harder, when she wasn't a satellite away. ]

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