FOR / @jacoblck , INBOX PROMPT : 🐺 ( ... ❛ ❛ DO I SEEM ANXIOUS TO YOU ? DO I SEEM BACKED INTO A CORNER ? ❜ ❜
( ... ) : / he’d inhaled the heat in the boy’s blood before hearing the question. like rust in a sunbaked rifle. like war in the wind. but a soldier recognized the way a body holds panic. in the shoulders. in the jaw. corpse confessing before wolf's will could. but fear could be useful ... he’d learned that once with a bayonet in hand.
❛ ❛ BOY ... YOU REEK OF CORNERED ANIMAL. YOU'RE LOUD ENOUGH TO PRETEND YOU'RE NOT. BUT I'VE SEEN MEN DIE WITH THAT SAME TREMBLE. ❜ ❜
there ain’t a man alive jasper hates more than himself. but lord , he gets real close watchin’ jacob breathe.