Mar 16, 2025
@owestwind answers the first toll.
she stopped short, turning to face the woman who had been trailing her for several hallways. a quiet laugh slipped from her chest ; more breath than sound, light, almost amused.
“ i fail to take you seriously with that […] thing perched on you. ” words came with a shameless smile. quite out of place, considering that every wasted second pushed someone closer to the edge of death. but there it was, as if the urgency of it all never quite touched her.