@laidline : [ text; ] this is a terrible idea
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❪ sms ⇢ 22 : 54 pm ❫ 𝚖𝚊𝚢𝚋 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝𝚕𝚕 𝚋 𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚞𝚗 𝚗 𝚒𝚖 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚢 𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚝 𝚌𝚗 𝚑𝚙𝚙𝚗 ? ❪ sms ⇢ 22 : 56 pm ❫ :( 𝚙𝚕𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜 𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚖

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@laidline : [ text; ] this is a terrible idea
compose message to : adam
❪ sms ⇢ 22 : 54 pm ❫ 𝚖𝚊𝚢𝚋 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝𝚕𝚕 𝚋 𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚞𝚗 𝚗 𝚒𝚖 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚢 𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚝 𝚌𝚗 𝚑𝚙𝚙𝚗 ? ❪ sms ⇢ 22 : 56 pm ❫ :( 𝚙𝚕𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜𝚜 𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚖
@laidline : [ text; ] i need help.
compose message to : Adam Parrish
❪ sms ⇢ 13 : 32 pm ❫ 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 ? ❪ sms ⇢ 13 : 33 pm ❫ 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖, 𝙸’𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚖𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙸𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚁𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚗 ? 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑, 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 ? ❪ sms ⇢ 13 : 45 pm ❫ 𝙸𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 ? 𝙼𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝟷𝟻. ❪ sms ⇢ 14 : 00 pm ❫ 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖. ✆ . . . 𝟏𝟒 : 𝟎𝟔 𝐩𝐦 : 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡.
@laidline : [ text; ] brb, descending into hell.
compose message to : adam ! 🌱🌲🍃
❪ sms ⇢ 09 : 45 am ❫ 𝚘𝚘𝚑 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚗 ❪ sms ⇢ 09 : 45 am ❫ 𝚘𝚛 𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚗 ❪ sms ⇢ 09 : 46 am ❫ 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚒 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚞 ? 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜 𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚢 ❪ sms ⇢ 09 : 48 am ❫ 𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚞 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚢 𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚏 𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 ! 𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚗 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚒𝚖 𝚊𝚠𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚋𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 !!
❝ maybe you’ll make an exception just this once. ❞
@laidline / starter call.
@laidline : a twisting forest that beckons you
declan lynch does everything purposefully. he wears gray suits, purposefully. he eats protein bars, purposefully. he gets his hair cut the same way every time, purposefully. he dates vapid blondes that are using him just as much as he is using them, purposefully. he keeps his heart guarded & his true self shrouded in secrecy, purposefully.
PURPOSEFUL, /ˈpəːpəsfʊl,ˈpəːpəsf(ə)l/, adj. : HAVING OR SHOWING GREAT DETERMINATION OR RESOLVE ; INTENTIONAL.
declan lynch wasn’t born bland & unseasoned ; he’d moulded himself into it, for safety’s sake. he’d fooled everyone into believing it, even ronan. EVEN HIMSELF. you tell a lie long enough, you start to believe it.
so why, then, is declan ‘ never does anything without writing down the pros & cons in a neat little pocket journal & leaving it a week to look it over with a clear head ’ t. lynch leaning against the hood of his car, appraising adam parrish & the forest before them ? dialling the situation back, why is he alone with adam in the first place ? they are questions declan doesn’t have an answer to, & every part of him screams out in protest. it’s not the UNFAMILIARITY of the situation that he baulks at. it’s the unknowingness of why he’s here in the first place.
he lives his life by the rules of reciprocity : declan almost never does something unless there’s something in it for him, too. but parrish has little to give to declan that he doesn’t already have.
eldest lynch boy pulls out his phone, despite knowing they’d lost signal some half-mile back. screen blinks into existence. no service. battery low. a quick glance at his watch proves it just to be as FRUITLESS AN ENDEAVOUR, the hands having been stuck for the past twenty-three minutes at 04 : 18p. fuck. he's supposed to be at a dinner later tonight. the phone slides back into his pocket, a comfortable & reassuring weight.
❛ well, ❜ he starts, choosing his words carefully. he does almost everything carefully. ❛ we’re here, parrish. what was it you wanted to show me ? ❜ & don’t tell me to follow you into that thing, because i’m almost certain we’ll never make it back out in this century.
❝ if only someone knew a little bit more about this situation. ❞ of course, that person would be you. you’ve never had a moral compass [ unless it had to do with anyone you cared about ] and you weren’t about to start. head tilts to the side as book is put down. there’s quite the dramatic sigh that leaves you. smirk is evident on lips as eyebrows furrow. ❝ that would be so helpful, wouldn’t it? ❞
@laidline / starter call.
@laidline said : “ let’s play look at the ceiling tiles ! 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 … ”
they lay shoulder to shoulder besides tiny henrietta, each street laid out with care by its creator, a heavy sigh escaping her lips. in moments like these, it seems as if they have run out of time, and yet, have all the time in the world. it’s strange, running and running and running with an endgame in sight --- a welsh king, some long hidden wisdom, and a wish bestowed upon the one who wakes --- yet never feeling any closer to the finish line. she knows what they’re searching for, but deep down, the why has always left her perplexed. and despite the confusion, she’s more all in on this quest than she has been with anything in her life that’s come before.
she tries to tune it all out --- to ignore concern and stay centered in the moment --- but the fact that she and adam are the only ones present at monmouth manufacturing, and curiously, all its residents are missing is not lost on her. “ they’ll be back soon, won’t they ? ” rhetorical, naturally --- adam knows no more than she does, “ they’re okay, right ? ”