@broughtflowers : ❛ i’ve got you, you’re safe ❜
mollymauk blinks, slow & eerily still. like he’s moving through thick molasses, limbs locked up & lips parting arounds words that won’t or can’t come out. he stares at her. bright red eyes wider than they’ve ever been before, affixed on a point far beyond her. his heartbeat is loud. thundering. pulsing through his bones, hammering down further into his chest.
can she hear it ? any of it ? there are voices swimming behind his eyes, slipping down to the waterline in burning tracks of salt.
❛ i remembered something, ❜ he rasps, stuttering before he can say anymore. like it caught against something that told him don’t. don’t tell her don’t tell her don’t tell her——molly blinks again, curling up into himself & hands winding into his hair. ❛ i think. my hair used to be shorter. ❜
it feels silly now that he says it out loud. he doesn’t usually practice embarrassment, but something about tonight feels raw. he shakes his head & pushes his posture up, lips curling into a smile that’s already dead on arrival. mollymauk twinkles. ❛ sorry. nevermind that. you were saying about giving me a shave ? ❜
MISC PROMPTS : accepting
