wish i had a river i could skate away on
thalia
Fertile
12-29-2019, 09:17 PM
"I hope I'm wrong too," she admitted. It wasn't a pleasant feeling. If it was all in her head, that would be a welcome reprieve from all the suffering she had endured this past year. It just seemed that things kept going from bad to worse. The timeline of her life looked like: wildfire, dead mom, volcanic eruption, dead mom. Theory often felt like she was someone else's grand experiment in tragedy. How much can wolf endure before they break? Rhyme had already shattered. She was left alone to hold herself together, but strangely, sitting by Thalia's side helped. Theo meant her retort as a joke but the yawning silence that stretched between them sucked any humor out of the air. Their beliefs might be different, but perhaps it wasn't fair of her to be so coarse with someone else's spiritual side. The idea of a "god" or a higher power made Theory uncomfortable. If there was a god, was she responsible for all of her suffering? Pushing the blame onto another being, however ben-or-mal-evolent, seemed a little bit too easy. Theory took pride in taking responsibility for her destiny. If she wasn't in control, then who was? "You're always welcome to escape to me," she said, her voice softer than she'd intended. The strange tenderness of her own words took Theory by surprise. They were so close that she hardly had to whisper for Thalia to hear her. In fact, she was suddenly aware that every exhale gently ruffled the long, soft fur behind Thalia's ears. Oh. All at once her heart seemed to beat as fast as a rabbit caught beneath an eager predator's claws. Theo couldn't tell if she felt elated, nauseous, or a mix of the two. "Maybe I'd let you win the next fight, anyway. In the name of fairness." This was uncharted territory: she was lost at sea and the waters were so deep she couldn't ever hope to see the bottom, but all she wanted to do was dive deeper, deeper, deeper until the pressure above her built and threatened to come crashing down. |
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