@archras liked for a starter
¬¬brows furrow with the sudden lift of fog-laden breeze , skin is flush with fatigue ; even as she dozes , left heel taps , incessant - beating a gravelly staccato into fissure-veined pavement .
scarlet -STOP- sign. serves as support for her pounding head ; fingers twitch minutely (sporadic) , tracing movements of the night past ; lines & angles of ink , infinite , sprawling ;; plummeting fulcrums & pivots that spin like sycamore seeds ;; numbers innumerable , driven as ever into the folds of her brain ; her knuckles are swollen , still faintly imprinted with grooves of canvas + pull-rings , fruits of after-dark labor rolled tight & tucked under one arm...would this be jackpot?
!...head jerks up sharply as scent |most singular !| slips joltingly sweet (piquant) into her parched airways & she turns- gaze whetting , nares quivering :
a girl - hair dark , drawn up from spritely shoulders , tongue protruding slightly in blissful concentration ; on her knees a tower of white packages balance precarious , teetering ; wrapping parchment moist with syrupy condensation : .
cognac eyes widen___ ;; C i n n a m o n rolls…the good kind- flat and stout ; thickset currants bulge through the translucent packing & innards snarl as she curses her endeavour-crazed self ; no food had passed her mouth this morn nor yon night . she had been seized , rapt , by drawing fever , only just released as today’s dawn coloured the heavens.
confit-laden girl rises whilst wistful one starts , expression almost anguished beneath heavy lids ; the column of pastries trembles & one brick topples loose as bus trundles to a halt before them ; doors unfold wheezily & the girl places a foot inside_
she scrambles up after her , wind-chilled palms lurching off the bench ;; brunette turns , quizzical____________? ; t’other purses her lips lest she slaver-