Thanks for the tag @blindthewind!
Words: mirror, clock, rose, and song.
Eventually, Jay pulled Basil through a doorway into what appeared to be a bathroom. All the mirrors were shattered, shining fragments littering the ground, winking up at them through a layer of dust. The room was dimly lit by a handful of flickering bulbs.
Basil raised his eyebrow at Jay. “Okay?” he said slowly.
“And that’s the last time I saw them.” Jay stared at the door as it closed behind them.
“Then what the fuck are you doing here?” Brian demanded.
“I don’t know!” Theo retorted. “You invited me here Bri, and I don’t know why you did—”
“Because you’re the only one I could ask!”
“Because Aiden’s got a ticking clock on time with his boyfriend, and Nessa and Jack and Sam are across the fucking country, and I—” Brian broke off with a shuddering gasp, doubling over suddenly. “And I hate being alone but it’s fine most of the time until everybody leaves to go home and then it’s just a shot to the face that I’m fucking alone. So don’t get on my case for not wanting to be sober when it’s the only way to fucking distract myself.”
Rose (Astral, featuring both the character and the flower lol)
Aiden kept his eyes on Rose as she unfastened a chain from around her neck. “One of the last times we met the princess’s guardian, he gave us this.”
Aiden held out his hand, and Rose gently deposited the necklace there for him to examine.
“He said that, when we’re ready to fight Maddox and need the princess, that this necklace will call them.”
Aiden moved the chain to examine the pendant. It looked like it was made out of stained glass, a dusty pink rose set against a blue sky and surrounded by gold.
“I’m going to let go now,” Antonio says, “but keep your eyes closed, okay? It’s just for a second.”
“What are you doing?” I ask, trying to ignore how my breath hitches when he releases my hand.
“A surprise,” Antonio replies in a sing-song voice. “Okay, ready. Vamos.”
For this one, I’ll tag @xiyais, @writing-bels, @saucysquared, @writinglyra, @willowgold and anybody else who wants to. Your words are memory, sound, embrace, and lie.