zoverenyi asked: ❛ i have so much i want you to see. ❜
she feels brutalized by light, the voracious radiance of it, touching the places where it once lived— but it touches and leaves, touches and burns and leaves. light leaves her lacking, like a missing tooth. absence shines through her body, not like light, there hasn’t been light for a while now. it vibrates like morse code, unbodying ghost from girl and it terrifies her how her voice comes out as if through a slit throat. it is just as red. the girl peers out from the eyes of the ghost, from the bottom of her grave.
❛ we've been here before. ❜ and in a way, their conjoined gazes make her vulnerable, alina feels it in the frailty of her knees, in the rawness of herself. then her heart hatches into a deformed kind of anger, the wings of it flickering before slaughter. there is something in the way he deliberately looks at her, as if he could take her flesh out with his teeth, that makes her feel ugly — besieged. she thinks it comes from knowing he wants her as a wolf wants a lamb. ❛ i think i’ve seen enough. ❜