distance to close
I am the only color betwixt. Yellow of skin and blue in my hair; nails gone purple—Kairi's pinkish stone loops my wrist in tight-wound ropes—lips dead like garbageheap hosiery.
"This is it."
You perch at the right. Pale as paper. There's more light from out behind where you are.
"Yeah."
I pluck a puff. Finger on my downy melt trembling in the air. From my shoulderblades.
"You'd think we'd catch each other any different way?" Bright cheeks crack. Cringe up into half-circle slats.
I flex my necklace. The charm weighs down so I'm lopsided—drooped off to the left where there's some smattering darkness. Cradled in the other is my feather.
"No."
Out extend your arms. "But I can do this now."
Shimmering doubt lay serpentine.
"I want to be with you."
Relaxed, necklace drips. Tease the cord to tip and tumble. Out from my left. And back down towards Life.
I smiled then. And you held my hand. And told me it was over.
( atanend )
hm. made special for her. "i like you." in the way i shouldn't.