💔Heartbreak moodboard for Juliette and Rapunzel

salt mine foreman kadian.

meme | accepting.

            The cold of her---colder than the river under a moonlit night---seeps into him, from her hand to his. Hers is the only touch of winter he has ever known. The only one he cares to know.  

When he dallies, it is with girls of spring and women of summer. Warmth meeting warmth, soft heat and softer sighs. Jarilo can never close his eyes and pretend he is true. That this isn’t the betrayal that kills her as surely as she kills him. 

But the season hasn’t ended and he is still hers---still faithful---with a body that coaxes what heat that can be drawn from hers. 

It won’t last. It won’t last, but he tries not to think of it as he brings their entwined hands to his lips. As he kisses the knuckles of her right hand, and the tip of each finger after that. 

This is the hand that ends him each year. This beautiful hand. These delicate fingers, white as birch and just as thin. 

wilting.

              “Like sex,” Peitho answers.  The answer isn’t a serious one---her laugh gives it away, soft as waves lapping the shore and just as effervescent.  She reaches for him before she remembers, switches her trajectory until she touches only cloth.  She pats his shoulders in a way she means to be consolatory.  

“The look of it is hard to describe.  It sits on others differently:  flushed cheeks and soft smiles, tender looks.  You know it when you see it, unless you don’t, but that isn’t very helpful, is it?  

Jane’s hands aren’t her most remarkable feature: they’re proportionate to her height, not particularly big or small, and although given her proclivities she might wish otherwise, she doesn’t have very long fingers—no pianist’s hands here. Her hands are fairly thin, bony at the knuckles, with clutches of blue veins visible under the skin; they also have a number of small scars—old burns and nicks and, depending on whether she’s been in her workshop recently, she might have a few more recent ones, too.

She is quite dexterous, and anyone who watches her with tasks that require fine motor skills would notice that she is gifted in that regard (and might be a bit surprised, since she’s been known to walk directly into furniture—she can be pretty clumsy otherwise). She keeps her nails trimmed short and keeps them clean, although it’s not atypical for her to not notice soot in her cuticles for like. Several hours after she’s finished in the workshop.