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Jun 4, 2015 21:08:39 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jun 4, 2015 21:08:39 GMT -5
she remembers the room this used to be, she remembers drinking in every detail, until she could picture every colour vividly with eyes shut.
she remembers it being different. it is almost spartan now, but it will do. sigrun makes it feel familiar, when she sits on the cushion on the floor, upper body draped drowsily over the table, head lolling. the dirt on her smears onto the varnished wood.
eyes closed, she tries to spin a picture of the past around her. she can feel the table vibrating with the approaching footsteps - from where she is, she can see the door.
eyes open, she waits.
leopold ambrose
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Jun 5, 2015 13:43:38 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 5, 2015 13:43:38 GMT -5
time is in constant flow. for no one does it wait, no earthly inhabitant. she returned untouched, unchanged.
she buzzed in his thoughts since, reminding him of his youth. of thing he thought better to forget. he anticipates her presence when he opens the front door, knows exactly where he'll find her.
"sigrun."
sigrun
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Djinni
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Jun 6, 2015 12:35:19 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jun 6, 2015 12:35:19 GMT -5
she meant to surprise him - as much as she can, since he can sense her before he can see her.
"hello." she replies, smiling as she sits up, leans back to brace her weight on her palms. "you've been gone all day." she cocks her head. he's busy, she supposes, but it's no reason to be so neglectful. she expected a warmer welcome.
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Jun 6, 2015 15:52:54 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 6, 2015 15:52:54 GMT -5
“you’re still here?” he remarks offhandedly. “I thought you would have wondered off already.”
her smile entices memories of the past—swirling flower blossoms, a wild dance to a beat that goes against the music playing, of longing for her return. why now?
leo strides past her to take up his place at the desk piled with papers.
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Djinni
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Jun 6, 2015 21:40:25 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jun 6, 2015 21:40:25 GMT -5
she shrugs, her smile evaporating. sometimes she forgets all the time that's passed. a human lifetime is the bat of an eye for a djinni. she has to make time drag. (she has to make time count).
for a few minutes, she sits and watches his back, hunched over his desk. a faint, fragrant breeze from the open window stirs his hair but otherwise he doesn't move.
silently, sigrun stands, crosses and slips her arms around him. "how much paperwork could war have?" she asks, trying to pull him closer.
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Jun 6, 2015 22:30:40 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 6, 2015 22:30:40 GMT -5
surely his coldness strikes her harder than any hit. there’s longing behind her fading smile, one for how things once were. can time rewind? the years have worn him down, eroded that bright eyed boy into a mere figment of his old self.
“plenty.” his scratching pen pauses mid-stroke. “are you lonely?”
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Jun 7, 2015 0:16:38 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jun 7, 2015 0:16:38 GMT -5
"bored." she'd spent a lot of time alone. why should it bother her now? peering over his shoulder, she squints at the writing but doesn't bother to decipher it.
"i thought things would be different. or... the same." sigrun admits. she's never grasped language or eloquence. leopold doesn't even look up - and she slides a hand down the length of his arm, curling her fingers around the pen. "didn't you want me to come back?" she had felt him call.
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Jun 7, 2015 22:21:09 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 7, 2015 22:21:09 GMT -5
he looks at her now, level with her iridescent eyes. still as beautiful as ever, still as unreachable.
“i did once.” he admits. her hand, so small and warm, rests on his, fingers curled over his pen. “you never came when i called, no matter how much i called. eventually, i stopped calling. i’ve long since given up on you.”
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Jun 8, 2015 19:52:24 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jun 8, 2015 19:52:24 GMT -5
she sighs, her breath faintly smoky and smelling of something bitter. he feels like something stagnant and grounding, sigrun moving around him.
"i'm back now." she points out. she doesn't understand why he's so angry - he let her go, he must have known she'd return, for she is always his.
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Jun 8, 2015 20:22:33 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 8, 2015 20:22:33 GMT -5
“you’re a flighty thing.” fingertip brush cheeks softer than velvet, smooth like silk. “you say your back, but for how long? you were never mine.”
he shakes free his hand. the pen rolls across the desk. chair legs groan against the polish hardwood.
“what did you expect when you came back after thirty years?”
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Jun 8, 2015 20:47:38 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jun 8, 2015 20:47:38 GMT -5
"i wasn't counting." her tone is cold. she's never quite learned to intone.
his fingers trace her skin like it's human. it is, only in form. sometimes, leopold forgets this - in this way, he hasn't changed. his skin is so soft and thin, near see-through, and sigrid nuzzles into his touch.
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Jun 8, 2015 21:43:22 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 8, 2015 21:43:22 GMT -5
in the end she is artificial. the long lashes, big, round eyes and silk soft skin no more than a preferred illusion. smoke and fire was the truth. a destructive force beneath human guise. how easy to forget when her voice is soft and airy, even then it’s cold.
“why are you still here? why did you come back?”
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Jun 8, 2015 22:22:43 GMT -5
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Post by sigrun on Jun 8, 2015 22:22:43 GMT -5
she doesn't answer, not aloud, reaching up to twine their fingers together.
because she's bound, whether by magic or by sentiment.
she has his attention, and her eyes trace the deepened lines of his face, the pockmarks, the dark spots. what is the difference between a portrait and a landscape, she wonders. how easily she could shield herself in the trunk of a tree, or dive into a river. instead she choses this city and its gates, this man and his walls.
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Jun 10, 2015 13:23:38 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 10, 2015 13:23:38 GMT -5
laced fingers like the twining of their lives together. how simple it’d be to dismiss her, let the other plane have her back. and yet, he could never part with her. she was bound, yet her chains only kept her on earth.
“you have my attention. what would you like to do with it?”
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Jun 10, 2015 21:49:44 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jun 10, 2015 21:49:44 GMT -5
head canted, sigrun considers the question. she opens her eyes and tries to see him anew - the physical reality had always bent easily in her mind - tries to see him as a boy again (and isn't he still young, in comparison?)
"do you want to dance?" she doesn't wait for an answer, pulling him to his feet with a grin that is nearly manic.
the way things used to be.
leopold ambrose
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