“ i can take you there, you know. the places in all those books. ” @laurnce liked.
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“ i can take you there, you know. the places in all those books. ” @laurnce liked.
“ why don’t you just . . . ask her out? ” rose was no stranger to unrequited feelings, both hypothetical and / or real. this poor soul was clearly tortured over someone. “ the worst she can do is say no, you know. ” @laurnce liked.
‘ where in the world have you been hiding? ’
❝ 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 far, far away from my mother. ❞ admiring the paintings in the 𝒂𝒅𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒔, actually. there's a PAINFULLY WRY TWIST to her mouth as she plucks a flute of champagne from a passing waiter, her other hand raising to touch gloved fingertips to upswept red curls : her dreaded beacon. ❝ though i suppose that's ruined now. ❞
@laurnce,
« this is boriiiiiing. » the singsong nature of her voice far more melodious than one would have expected, considering she is dangling head upside down on the bed, looking at the boy across the room, whose eyes are still lost on a page scribbled with notes. her long blonde hair, far from being thoroughly brushed, is now a long veil of light touching the ground as she shakes her head slightly, movement signaling the desire to capture an idea. « let's play a game. » & there it is : the resolute tone of someone who has made a decision.
the air was chilly —— perhaps that’s his excuse for not recognizing laurie. but, it’s also been years —— his face hasn’t changed much. “ so, what brings you back? i heard that you and your grandfather were over in new england. ” @laurnce liked. still accepting.
🎃🕯️🔮 starter call, accepting. ˎˊ˗ for; @laurnce
" it's so cold! i don't know how those kids do it all night long, even starbursts can't be worth all this. "
@laurnce wrote : “ one can pray to the ocean , but the waters answer in strange tongues . ” ── 𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐎 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 .
and doesn’t she know that all too well ? she , the girl that spent the nights of her youth staring out at such roiling waters and begging them to swallow her whole ? ingrid’s smile is thin as memories spark behind her eyes ── the smell of saltwater , sand between her toes .
“ but that depends entirely on 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 , doesn’t it ? i myself used to ask for freedom , in all its forms . . . and the atlantic must have taken well to that , i think , for it’s surely what i got . ”
❛❛ remember to festoon the hearth with garlic, or rosemary, or one of those mundane herbs that keep evil out.
... @laurnce !
❛❛ sounds like rather sage advice, at first. ❜❜ the boy of nephilim-blood cannot resist the temptation of supernatural beckoning tucked in between pages. even if those pages were filled with the ramblings of a foolish old sighted mortal; or worse, a respected doctor that would as soon have set a witch to smoking as his own pipe. the other lays against the couch, amusing himself as travelers are wont; and will is not one to discourage him, for a threat to their idle hours is not imminent ( and he quite enjoys the subject at hand, one seemingly blessed for boasting of his own exploits ! ) he leans now against the divan, statuesque as a sapphire-eyed david with the hair of a highwayman in his face, as he sets to staring over shoulder at the leather-bound book filled with oddities & various illustrations. some of them are gruesome, others with quack enough to inspire derision, but what are human conventions, if not to amuse those that know better ? and indeed what are shadowhunter conventions, but to forbid the fun of conversing with those they’re sworn to protect ?
the subject must seem to be dust and shadow to most, the enduring lessons of the past cloaked in the superstition of those that have come before. but far be it from him to disguise the truth, when there is an entertaining sort of story to be told. at least it could be blamed upon a sip too much of sherry, as will’s discovered most things can. ❛❛ there was a visitor to the church ( institute ) not long ago: a pretty one, in fact. afraid she had it in mind to decorate the place with the very stuff ! as though vampires might come through the chimney like st. nicolas himself. gives me the morbs. ❜❜
❛❛ problem is, not a whiff of fine dining is enough to keep those devils at bay, much less an herb or advice named after it. what one requires is a good blade [ ... ] more’s the better, to turn one’s own teeth upon the vampire. i cannot say it does much more than to stun, but believe you me, one has only to see the looks on their fanged faces, to recognize a superior approach. ❜❜ ——— in fact, it usually takes them a full ten seconds to set themselves to rights afterwards, a fact verified by his own repeated experiments.