@everstride said: his heart still thumps just as loud, just as fast as it once did all those many years ago. for she had already made a home inside his chest, carved deep inside each bone. his heart beat, belonged to her. it always would, it always will. his hands find alma’s face, the mere touch of familiar skin has his lids falling shut, jaw tightening. i missed you, i love you. so many things he wishes to say, but can’t. “still beautiful as ever.” theyre alone, he can speak such without casting glances over his shoulder. lids peel open, a swallow as he looks down at her. “more beautiful than ever.”
FUNNY. he says that, and yet all she can see are lines across her face that weren’t there ten years ago, the slight auburn color her hair takes on now because she can’t color it quite as dark as it used to be, the slight ache in her hip that she can’t get rid of when it’s cold in the morning. meanwhile he just looks distinguished and REFINED, carrying age and power like he’s always been suited for them.
her skin lights up when he touches her, his words stoking that flame into a blazing inferno. ❝ SETH... ❞ a rare utterance of his given name, almost a prayer, spilling across her lips. ❝ i meant what i said. you have... been all the most vivid colors in my memories of this place. ❞ a gloved hand rises to place itself over his. ❝ it’s NICE to see all of those colors again. ❞