ᴄᴏɴᴛɪɴᴜᴇᴅ ғʀᴏᴍ ʜᴇʀᴇ: // @tormentavi
What sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ relief the young man found in the unlikely company of the older man and his ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴɪᴏɴ. For near decade the bespectacled stranger’s visage was nothing more than a distant memory, features blurry and distant, a study worn on burned film stock. But somewhere in the back of his mind, the memory still stained, no matter how hard the child had tried to ғᴏʀɢᴇᴛ.
Legs were parcelled, bundled beneath each-other as the kindly offered beverage went unnoticed. Just the smell was enough to make an already desperate mind nauseous. It was the very early hours of the morning, the sun yet still to rouse from its dutiful slumber.
Dalton would have felt ɢᴜɪʟᴛʏ for keeping the other up, but Specs had already been rummaging around these early hours. The same couldn’t be said for his ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴇʀ-ᴘᴀʀᴛ, who’s beast-like snoring rattled from the other room, filing any silence between them.
“Mnnnh.” He comments in absent affirmation, digits gnawed gentle without thinking before his own gaze meets that of the writer, moving the hand instead to push through his mane of tawny hair.
“It’s....not as bad in the day?” Dalton attempts to explain, unable to hold Specs’ gaze for too long of a time, instead affixing themselves to the slowly sinking marshmallow being devoured by the cocoa’s soft heat. “But---” Hesitation exudes, catching his words before they tumble out.
“The door. There’s this door. I kind of just tried to ignore it at first, but the more I did the more I started seeing it. Every time I try to get there, it just gets further away from me. It’s...not like one I’ve seen before. And I’d--- I’d ignore it. I would. But it’s everywhere. Not just when I’m asleep---there’s someone behind it. A kid? I think? They sound scared but---I don’t----” words begin to slow, drifting off as the ever-growing habit of spirit daring to wander clings to his chest. He bites down gently on his finger; an astronaut’s tether.
“It’s getting worse, Specs.” He repeats, finally able to peer back over at him.









