Time
Summary: Belle thinks, sometimes, that time here is just another puppet he pulls the strings on.
Notes: For r_lee.
Challenge: LJ's 100wordstories
Prompt: Time
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Belle thinks, sometimes, that time here is just another puppet he pulls the strings on. A prisoner let loose only in very slow steps.
In the beginning, the hours vanish in what she gets wrong: broken china, the kitchen fire, wash disaster, polishing things she shouldn't even touch. In the middle, the days lengthen, wakening: spring grows from the absolute ice, light filters in, and everything feels strangely new, strangely possible.
In the end, there is never enough of it, no matter how long, how many mornings: for books, for the garden, or drawing each new fragile truth from him.