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Lyra: My muse reflects on a significant relationship.
He wanted to wrap it up in words, but he didn’t know how to do so without spilling the secret that caused the whole incident. He started there, with the word ‘colder’.
She made him colder. She took the warmth from his heart by letting it out through a small little hole, metal-stained. Gunpowder, gunpowder, could he use it?
Seth had already worked out a nice little riff, humming the notes as he wrote.
The relationship had been good until the end. It came to a jarring, halting stop, complete with sirens and a hospital visit. Could he twist that into a metaphor?
A hand sifted through his bangs. He was in that mood again -- he had to get something down. The emotions were whirling inside of him, raw knives against his heartstrings. His best work was in that vulnerable place between motivation and tears.
Before she broke his heart so thoroughly, she’d been wonderful. A bubbly girl that begged him to write songs about her (back when he was bad at it), and he wrote hundreds for her but never showed her a single one.
Everything was good until the end. How could he put that into words without telling the whole truth?
Gunpowder, gunpowder, on your breath and in my chest.
That sounded good, he decided, just about the time the scar she gave him pounded with imaginary heat. He sighed. It ached when he thought of her, and he hated it. It felt like his heart was aching from her, and not the wound that she left him with.
There was no denying it. She changed him, though for better or worse he still didn’t know. People were weird like that, he concluded. You could break them to bits and they’d still find something good out of it. Maybe he just needed to find something good about it in order to move on.
But he was definitely colder now. He could be distant and detached and cold, and he didn’t think that was an improvement.