Daily Excerpt (2024.08.26)
An excerpt from āSibling Rivalryā (working title). These dailies are unedited and do not represent the final product.
What face is he making? Does it look natural? The world pops and crackles with static, everything a blur under the fuzz of noise.Ā āWell, it was good to see you, Junta,ā Mirac says politely, and calmly continues on his way. He doesnāt change routes, because why should he? What power does Junta have over him that would prevent him from walking past? Nothing. Heās proving it right now.Ā Juntaās eyes burn like a spotlight on his skin as he walks. (He canāt stand for Junta of all people to see him like this.) āDude, whatās wrong with you?āĀ Thereās a note of something in the question that stops Mirac dead in his tracks. Like digging a needle into an exposed wire, something sparks harshly in his chest and he turns on his heel. He feels how bright his smile is from the pull of his own skin, the moon and stars compared to the dead depth of his eyes.Ā āWhat do you mean?ā he asks, with a frenetic edge to the easy tone like a knife in a sleeve. He sees Juntaās face now, the slight frown, the furrowed browāthe caution. Itās laughable. Itās a fucking joke.Ā āYou look like you havenāt slept in a week.ā Try two, Mirac thinks, but even the giddiness of sleep deprivation drowns under the exhaustion, leaving only fits and starts of the most frenzied of his feelings to claw its way up for air. āI donāt see why thatās any of your concern.ā Thatās the kind of sentiment he reserved for his brother, after all.
(This excerpt features idolkilling's OC Junta.)















