@h3llsfavorite || continued 🔹
It was no wonder Angel would start poking around. Rick hadn’t stopped him—wouldn’t do it either. Curiosity was cheap here, cheaper still in people like that guy, wired to chase noise, even when it burned. What caught him off guard, though, was the fucking photo. The woman in the portrait. He didn’t think Angel would ask. Honestly? Rick simply assumed the guy wouldn’t have spared the damn frame a second thought.
But boredom was its own algorithm.
It drove behavior like hunger did... defined it.
Rick didn’t answer right away. He sat propped in bed, sheets askew at his waist, spine pressed against the chrome paneling of the headboard. Those deep, nova-like eyes had their empty stare locked on Angel—cool, unreadable. There was silence, then more of it… stretched just long enough to feel dangerous.
“If someone came to you offering you godhood... Not just power, but authorship. Control so deep the universe forgets it ever resisted you.” Rick outstretched a hand towards Angel, open palmed, then slowly folded his fingers inwards, as if closing around something imaginary. Maybe power itself, maybe the multiverse. “Everything yours. All the drugs you’ve ever chased, all the highs that haven’t even been invented yet. Pleasure tuned to madness. Sensations so vast they swallow language… and they’re all yours to name.” Rick didn’t blink while speaking, he simply stared, dead in Angel’s mismatched eyes.
“Would you have said no to that?”