🎧 Ten x Rose 69
(I'm such a child...)
sksksksks, okay, well, you're in luck, because this one worked out basically perfectly… hope i didn't miscount!
your line: starlight on skin is a million years old (from 'between the breaths' by mitski & xiu xiu)
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She remembers learning how long it takes for light to reach from the stars and touch Earth—the speed it travels. About 300,000 kilometers per second.
She remembers thinking that far too fast.
He laughs, when she tells him.
But he takes her to a planet where all the stars in the night sky—most invisible to the naked eye—are billions of miles away, and the sky's an endless, inverted pupil.
"From here, light takes millions of years to arrive," he says, patiently.
She reaches for his hand.
Through her spacesuit, the touch feels like the kiss of starlight on skin.















