JESPER // @fabrikctor
❝ jesper . ❞ he was not expecting his voice to sound so low . it reverberated in his head as though it belonged to someone else , although the boy had an inkling that it was due to the ringing in his head , the familiar hubbub of the streets of the lid that they’d left behind now that they were on black veil ( although it was the kind of noise you couldn’t easily unhear ) && worse , the sound of his father’s words still fresh && replaying in his mind while drowning out most of his environment . it all came back into focus when he reached out to touch the sharpshooter’s arm , hoping that at least the contact alone would bring some form of solace . the way back to fifth harbour on the longboat had somehow been longer this time , wylan had been trying to catch jesper’s eye but everything that he could think of saying sounded way too wrong , or not enough . && even so , he supposed this was not a conversation to be had in the presence of others , much less kaz && matthias . still , now they were alone && he couldn’t feel any more pathetic than when he realised that the only words he could make any sense of after this whole ordeal would fail to capture what he’d wished he could say every day for a week leading up to this .
❝ i’m sorry ❞
