[ the rest of it catches in his teeth, syllables ground to dust as he fishes for the right thing to say. i trust you, he'd said, when what he'd meant was i know you, despite all the facts laid out, the weighted silences that'd dogged them since they'd settled down to dry. it's a surety built on old awful habit, arrogance, instinct.
it's one thing to offer something like that, another to take it gracefully in turn.
words, words, words. he rumples back his hair in a useless, restless sweep -- contrarily, it springs up again, all ruffles with a single outraged tuft sticking near-upright like a particularly fat antenna. keith's already looking elsewhere, fingers splayed along his cheek as he studies every scrap of ash building along the base of the fire. ]
I think you're just going overboard now.
[ at the very least, with saying it out loud. but it comes out mostly dry. ]
no subject
[ the rest of it catches in his teeth, syllables ground to dust as he fishes for the right thing to say. i trust you, he'd said, when what he'd meant was i know you, despite all the facts laid out, the weighted silences that'd dogged them since they'd settled down to dry. it's a surety built on old awful habit, arrogance, instinct.
it's one thing to offer something like that, another to take it gracefully in turn.
words, words, words. he rumples back his hair in a useless, restless sweep -- contrarily, it springs up again, all ruffles with a single outraged tuft sticking near-upright like a particularly fat antenna. keith's already looking elsewhere, fingers splayed along his cheek as he studies every scrap of ash building along the base of the fire. ]
I think you're just going overboard now.
[ at the very least, with saying it out loud. but it comes out mostly dry. ]