#bonewhite

Awkward Conversation: Untitled chapter

Perhaps Evan’s distress bleeds through to the wraith, Ivory strokes his hair gently, comfortingly, and begins to purr softly. Evan finally breaks the kiss and rests his head on the wraith’s shoulder, breathing hard.

“You are well?” the wraith asks him.

“Yeah,” he replies, his breath a ragged gasp. He turns his face in towards the wraith, pressing a line of gentle kisses on his throat.

The wraith’s fingers continue their slow stroking through his hair, “You seem distressed.”

“It’s a work thing,” Evan sighs. “I shouldn’t bother you with it.”

“If you like,” Ivory responds, turning his head to gently kiss his forehead. “Let me wipe it from your thoughts.”

Evan pulls back and looks at him sharply, he was fairly sure the wraith couldn’t alter someone’s mind permanently but…

The wraith laughs at the look on his face.

“Distract you,” he clarifies. There is something almost smug in the way the wraith is carrying himself. He takes Evan by the hand and pulls him towards the door of the cruiser. “Come inside.”

Evan hesitates, just a moment, at the base of the ramp. The wraith has offered once or twice to take him into the cruiser, but after Evan continued to refuse, he had not asked again. The wraith turns at his hesitance and meets his eyes, a question in his green gold eyes.

To paint the trim about my house

      I chose the color of bone,

a shade just shy of perfect white

      with a slightly tooth-like tone;

baseboards, crowns, and moldings all,

      the skeletal parts that show,

a homage to our darkened selves