I'll post the rest after dinner. And thank you to StaticMind (who was extremely quick off the blocks!). It's nice to know I'm not hated. Really.


Date: 20th January

Character: Edward

Stimulus: Time


How long now? I'm losing track. Only a few months, maybe.

I snort aloud at that. The word 'only' is inappropriate; the connotations of such a word are that it has felt like a short period of time, that it has not felt like an eternity. Like it has not been forever since I left her alone in the woods.

Even to me, though I have lived for a hundred years, it feels like years. Decades. Centuries. Millennia.

I'm through living through a week, or even a day at a time. I'm counting the hours, now. Soon it will be minutes, seconds…

Every single one is a dull blow to my chest. Even though Vampires do not feel pain as humans do, this hurts more than my change. Far, far more. Because I am not just losing my humanity—what is that, compared with her? I have lost everything that I love.