@flamewrit said: we all have secrets: the ones we keep, and the ones that are kept from us.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PROMPTS
the thing about celia st. james, whose silhouette has shadowed the silver screen with beth march's vulnerability, whose ruthlessness will one day strike it with stunning tyranny, is that she is always living a truth.
even now, withdrawing a cigarette from its wickering plastic case & setting it against the cupid's bow of her lip, she leans in to a statement that should stab an icepick of fear into her heart for someone knowing, with a sincere hike to her brow. " i don't know about that. " there's none of evelyn's canary-catching coyness in the way celia replies.
there's no game to be in on.
she's well-practiced with a light & its matchstick glamor, the initial soothing scorch of the first intake of breath that sends the spark skittering across the filter.
" you sound like you're worried you did something to end up in tomorrow's sub rosa, " the bitterness that pinches an unfamiliar weathering at the corners of her mouth smoothes into an easy exhale. " care to dish? "