“Look man, have you ever, like… have you ever been angry? Like really angry?”
He had been, both when he was alive, and after, and of course Dash had to know that. Everyone who had ever seen Phantom fight had to know that. But he didn’t say any of that, he just gave Dash a small nod and pulled himself up onto the roof, where he draped himself up and over Dash’s window like a snake. He crossed his arms and sat listening.
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Been reading "You Wouldn't Like Me Alive" by @ectoplasmranch and the setting and emotion is captured with such a nostalgic, unsettling poignancy that it's given me more than one nightmare. Perhaps the opposite of cathartic. It just keeps building and building and keeping me on the edge of my seat, in the way that each breath on a snow silenced night crystallizes and pierces you to the core. Really really lovely.