11. Quiet Moments
Rose and Izuru
Rose runs his thumb across the high bone of Izuru's cheek - where the rough skin of the cheek meets the soft skin of the under eye, purple with a lack of sleep and too much sleep. Izuru is watching him with something that is not disinterest and Rose gives him a fond smile for it before dropping his hand. The street is quiet and tranquil but Izuru can feel the hollow there, nasty, grotesque, everything that Rose is not. Izuru is not ungrateful for Rose, but he wishes it were the hollow instead. Hollows think less and Rose has such an inquisitive mind … Izuru curls his hand at his side and squeezes tight enough for his short nails to bite the flesh there. What could Rose do to him, he wonders. What would Rose stop him from doing.
Rose is a delicate kind of touchy and he comes at Izuru in grand and open gestures, half expecting Izuru to stop him, and always half surprised when he doesn't. Rose gets the sense that Izuru cares very little for intervention. Rose gets the sense that Izuru would let the world burn around him if no order directed him to stop it. Rose gets the sense that Izuru would let the world burn him, and it's not a comforting thought at all.
It's been a minute since I've added to this; I think I'm going to post three today. ;) As always, reviews are much loved.
