@trustinginthelight | MISC SENTENCE STARTERS
“ i wish i knew how to talk about it. ” from Carl
“I have an idea.” Markus said, his hand wrapped around Carl’s, steady and warm and squeezing just enough to reassure.
“... It’s easier, sometimes, when it’s like no one is listening. You want them to be, but when they are it’s like your chest is a prison, and the words can’t break free.” He knew how it felt. It was like pressure, bearing down where his thirium pump was, heavy enough he couldn’t catch a breath.
“What would you say, if you were certain no one could hear?” Connor had once asked him that. They’d sat on a bench under a cloud choked sky, neither of them, by the rules of the question, having heard anything. It was worth trying now, for Carl, if it would help. If it would make it less heavy.
“I can’t answer, only hear. That is the rule of the question.” His mismatched eyes never left Carl, but he drifted his thumb, fondly, over the back of his hand.