a heartbeat and the double-vision of it comes apart. there's a moment where the world's a single image -- clouds racing and curdling from the brightening stars behind barred, dirt-smeared glass -- and then there's two of them: a stranger with his hands settled along the rusting cot, keith with his whole frame twisted to meet that single voice, steady as a compass needle swinging true north. ]
Was I loud? [ in contrast, the syllables drop like coins into the dusty hush, one after another; around them the house hangs still. ] I think I was -- dreaming.
[ and there goes reflex again, an absent traitor in the way he reaches out to clasp shiro's arm for some slight sign. be here with me. just be here. ]
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[ a star falls.
a heartbeat and the double-vision of it comes apart. there's a moment where the world's a single image -- clouds racing and curdling from the brightening stars behind barred, dirt-smeared glass -- and then there's two of them: a stranger with his hands settled along the rusting cot, keith with his whole frame twisted to meet that single voice, steady as a compass needle swinging true north. ]
Was I loud? [ in contrast, the syllables drop like coins into the dusty hush, one after another; around them the house hangs still. ] I think I was -- dreaming.
[ and there goes reflex again, an absent traitor in the way he reaches out to clasp shiro's arm for some slight sign. be here with me. just be here. ]
Almost felt like you were still gone.