heirring: (rather clever)
Wysteria Poppell ([personal profile] heirring) wrote2018-09-09 12:39 pm

inbox.

[action + written + crystal]
heorte: (62)

[personal profile] heorte 2023-11-26 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
Gone.

The word reverberates, sticks like a bramble. There is such finality to it that Ellis, not a man given to optimism, finds it hard to clutch on to even the sliver of a question: do Rifters come back?

Some have, he knows. But Richard Dickerson has been gone a very long time. And Holden had never reappeared. And now—

There is a tinny pressure building in Ellis' ears. He can feel his body because he is holding Wysteria so tightly. The hitch of his breath comes and goes, unsteady, as his hand slides up her back, settles at the nape of her neck. Finds no words to offer, no other useless question. If Wysteria doesn't understand, then Ellis certainly won't. He has been piecing together understanding from what Wysteria and Tony shared, all this time.