#echo verse

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Because he chose to let Brian be. He actively chose to just, not seek out justice for his wife, not put a stop to weird dealings in a small, almost reclusive town. And even if the extent of what he knew ended there - which I highly doubt - it was a situation that had immense chances to go in his favor if he brought attention to it. Because while it's clear Brian goes after vulnerable people, people he knows won't be looked for, he still isn't the most meticulous murderer. He's not exactly subtle and it's noted that several people saw his victims in his trailer at some point.

But no. Duke just didn't care enough... or maybe thought that if he was going after Brian he would admit guilt in doing so. His self image and his apathy made him chose to just let Brian be, and eventually ended up in a situation where he would be able to use the fucking murder of his wife as leverage against the bear. I don't know if he always planned on doing that, perhaps it was just a convenient side effect of his ''inaction'' so to speak... but honestly I don't know which is worse? To just be that opportunistic, or to be this kind of cold planner? Yeah...

And in one possible branch of the timeline, the one that leads to Arches, he still didn't do shit about Brian. Possibly after witnessing more horrible violence he saw the bear act out. Like? Wow. In a weird, twisted way, I think he's almost as bad as Brian, if not more. Because of the pernicious way his actions - or lack thereof - play out. And because he chose NOT to act.

That alone in itself is an interesting fact, and probably a hint at what his role will be later on but-- he's also a wolf. What of it you say?

Well, James handymans / bodyguards are noted to be wolves. Perhaps Kane is the one that drives the automobile, so it'd be logical we see little of him until the Stag scene, and that William didn't really take notice of him in his route, since the confrontation took place inside the car.

Alright. I'm gonna call it now.

The guy who mailed that pervy and creepy letter to Mary Applegate? Who engaged in that twisted game of cat and mouse?

it's such a little thing to keep a secret, but i – i have always been the one to map the exit plan, plan the escape, trap door in the basement, come on, let's go, go figure that i was the last one you'd ever turn to, to save the things most precious to you. you know, it wasn't supposed to end like this, this skulking in the shadows, wringing hands, begging please, please don't hurt them, don't hurt me, i – i can help you if you only – only it was me and i know you knew when he felled you like a limb, limbs splayed across the carpet and i cannot not see your glassy eyes every time i close mine because you know we were friends, friends stick together, and somehow i only stuck long enough to stick that knife in your back, back when i thought maybe, maybe it wouldn't end like this. this wasn't what i wanted, i just thought maybe, maybe, if it was him (not us) we could make it. it should have gone different, not you trusting me, me standing in the rubble with your blood on my hands and i – i will spend every last breath i have begging forgiveness from your ghost and you, you will continue to turn your face from me and tell me what i already know:

A collection of verse by His Highness, the Half Blood-Prince

March 1997

Please

Her breath breaks like dawn over my rough hands. Hands

she allows to skim over the surface of her hair— hair

like a ring of silver, a halo of crepuscular light— light

secret and wise as the Darkest Art. Art

she makes of my body, tied and broken on the rocks of a pleasure too sharp to bear. Bare

is my soul, ripe for the plucking, black as the rose. Rose

E for Echo #NaPoWriMo2021

The Echo poem or Echo verse is an interesting form of poetry. We just have to follow a simple rule that the end syllable(s) of each of the lines have to be repeated in the same line. Sometimes a near rhyme works too. There are two ways to structure an Echo verse: Repeat the ending syllable(s) at the end of the same line or repeat the ending syllable(s) on its own line directly beneath each line.…