#latebite

[vitalphenomena]

@latebite said: you don’t need to be scared of me.

"I'm not scare of you."

"When I play soccer I can kick really big."

So watch out, shins of Conrad O'Malley! You shan't get too close too quickly!

[miidnighters-a]

@latebite said "who do you think told?"

Billie looks up from painting her toenails to assess him. "I dunno, probably some two-bit producer trying to get a little ahead. I don't think it really affects you, or your presence though. Somebody in charge will take care of it."

[strszyga]

@latebite asked 🜃 ❛ Something horrible out there in the woods, something really horrible. ❞

Her eyebrows jump — not like the words scare her, although to an outside observer that would perhaps be the sensible response. Young girl, alone and a stranger to this town, at the edge of those very woods.

Her mouth purses, fingers stuffing another handful of barberry into her bag. There are horrible things in the woods. The woods are for all of the wild and dark and true things which civil men wish to forget. She lives in the house of the oldest of them, and cannot forget to be grateful for it.

"Many things in the woods," she answers in an accent thick enough to saw through only with a knife much, much heavier than the one tucked into her belt. "Some must be horrible, áno?"

[strszyga]

@latebite asked 🜃 ❛ It’s important, what I do. It makes me feel useful. ❞

"Ah?" She doesn't quite look up from the needle she's pushing through the thin skin of her wrist; cold languid relief from the constant knowledge of bones which continue to move, day after day. "Za čo?"

"You make un-funny blague with people whose names no one need know."

[miidnighters-a]

@latebite said "maybe that’s what i like about you."

"Don't be ridiculous, as if you could only pick one thing."

Still, no one had ever argued that Bella wasn't a vain creature, sitting there with pleased smile on her face. "But if you had to pick..."

[miidnighters-a]

@latebite said you’re teasing me now.

"Only a little, darling."

Bella Rose, forever unchanged, grins at the man who used to be the boything she met in an alley. And though she's teasing him a little bit, the throughline of what she's saying is completely true. No matter what else is on her TV, or what else she's doing, she turns it over to watch his show, religiously.

"You'd be bored if I wasn't here to tease you just a little."

[strszyga]

@latebite @hungryyheart said 🜃 ❛ i smelled you, and you probably smell me now. ❞

... "I see still no one has taught you good manners, then, ah."

[strszyga]

@latebite asked 🜃 ❛ I really need to get home ‘cause I’ve got a seriously early curfew. ❞

An abrupt huff through her nose— one could, generously, call it a laugh.

She rolls her eyes and sighs at the ceiling, purposely dropping away from English. "To, čo máte, je krátke vodítko." What you have is a short leash.