❛ forgiveness. can you imagine? ❜
He raises his brows, curled grin freezing in a lapse of composure before smoothing out into something less - cutting. It might even be genuine [ do you believe it?].
‘There isn’t much to imagine, you should know, dear.“
Shouldn’t you? Or have they [ horrid, putrid ] contaminated your mind with dulcet ideals - whispered into your naive ear? They are words that remain unspoken - he rolls on the balls of his feet, seemingly restless, yet somehow grounded.
‘Forgiveness is,“ he halts, as if giving himself a moment to think about a suitable response, albeit already knowing what he’s going to say, ‘a pathway to buried resentment.” He accentuates the last word for the thrilling sake of theatrics, caving into a whisper.
People [ the lot] will fall under the pretense of being above acrimony - ‘ i a m s o r r y ‘s &&. acceptance. But he knows | he has seen it - years in the future when grey commences to bleed into their corona, all the bitterness born from muttered ‘i forgive you’s will amount to a silent b o o m.