claudiamcrshall:
lack of sleep split her along the seams, jagged edges where normally there weren’t any to fear. cora shouldn’t get a rise out of her, she was better than that. she knew that there was no point in playing the game, any question she answered was a stab in the dark, trying to find the spot where she was still bleeding from everything the samsons had taken from her. what had the past ever done for her, looking back on it held nothing but acute misery.
“the accident.” world view tilted, she took a step further back from cora, stuttering thoughts trying to unfurl from the part of her mind that she had pushed it all into. bile rising in her throat, tremble in her voice. “what the fuck—” accusation in her eyes, because there was nowhere else to place it. the awful feelings deep within. what did a connection have to do with the fact that he’d nearly died, she’d nearly died. “what does that have to do with anything.”
She was not witness to the accident in physical form. Her perception expanded beyond that of what her body could hold, every mineral in the universe in communication with each other, their wavelengths reverberating through space and time, an endless conversation and exchange of information that she'd never be able to hear without them. It was in the grits of sand that needled their way into burning tire treads, the salt in the tears that brewed in the eyes, the iron in the spilled blood that night.
"It was meant to remind you and Julian that everyone has made their plans to how they want them to be," Cora explained calmly, hands folding softly over each other, "and you will only be making this life more painful than it was meant to be if you keep trying to alter them." She released a silent breath, circumstances a series of misfortunes that only she saw were connected. "It was a dear hope of mine that you would understand the consequences better with the warning that not all was lost, but that it could be. I don’t want that for you, Claudia, and I feel that you would not want that for Julian either."













