#* xianthe

[bunburie-a-blog]

@bonnmot​

     “We’re going to find an incident in your life of which you have an exact record. Then by sending you through it at the moment it happens several times, we’re going to reduce it. Locate an incident that you feel you can comfortably face, and go to the beginning.”

[bunburie-a-blog]

@bonnmot

     “I’m fine.” She’s not, and it’s plainly obvious. Her eyes are red-ringed and she’s wiping them even as she’s pretending she isn’t, only in that way that makes it obvious she’s trying not to smear her mascara everywhere. She was supposed to be handing out brochures, and now the stock is waterlogged and ruined and the culprit sprinted away a good five minutes ago. The only dry brochures make up the meagre stack in her lap. “It’s no problem, really.”

[bunburie-a-blog]

@saintburned / roulette

     “Hey, mister. You wanna take a free personality test?” Belatedly, Xianthe remembers that these people like it when you smile.

     “We don’t bite.”

[bunburie-a-blog]

@bonnmot

     “Callum Callum Callum.” It’s easier to remember names if you say them more often. She does that thing, too, where you think of an adjective that starts with the same letter. Callum’s is candid. “Come have lunch with me.”