yoojin ( @cagedb1rd ) said, "Let me in."
the worst that can happen has already happened. gold-stained eyes have glimpsed the depths of existence and now peek out from behind a slim gap between aged wood and the door’s frame. unknowable things linger in the depths, in the back of a mind already worn tediously thin, and now ?? a horror arrives at the inn room, loitering about but not quite committing to entry. maybe permission is needed. maybe the half-cracked door is enough of a warning, an objection.
the bones of his knuckles stain the thin skin blanketing them white with the force of his hold on the door’s cusp. unease pools in his gut, mingling with flat soda and the remnants of yesterday’s dinner. he does not get visitors. he does not get friendly faces showing up in the middle of the night, the blaring message of ‘3 A.M’ on the analog clock beside his bed far from lost on him. it stays in his peripheral as a blurry neon red.
❛ no, ❜ is his answer, low, tired, warning in its own right. ❛ not until you tell me what you want. ❜