@loupns sent: ❛ i have yearned for the taste of your lips. ❜ / five senses, not accepting.
— a perfect silence, coming and going like a thief in the night: the air is fraught in its wake, galvanized and awaiting discharge. flora and fauna are soundless, bereft of the constant shifting representative of life. it is as if they are keenly aware of the precipice on which they stand, wrought from plain - spoken utterance; or a fissure, perhaps, that sets parties asunder; or a doorway, an opportunity for egress. whatever its name, it is apotheosis given form, a desirous revelation that anticipates response. the silence consumes elsa, takes possession of her fingers and curls them into fists, long nails digging crescent moons onto bloodless palms. gaze remains steadfast on his, devouring earnestness for all it is worth. she can’t quite understand. but what do i know of yearning?
what she knows is this: beneath flesh and sinew there rages a tempest, gelid and inclement, that waxes and wanes in equal measure when a warm hand brushes her own. little deaths in the distance closed by light - footed steps, the rumbling laughter matched by twinkling verdant eyes. the storm dwindles because it is comforted, but it builds because it is afraid — perhaps this is yearning, to be solaced and terrorized all at once. temerity shakes her, wills the silence away; she knows it to be an ephemeral presence, and must take advantage. and so, she crosses the threshold. closes the chasm. takes the plunge. walks toward him and offers herself like a lamb to the slaughter, to the feast. ❛❛ and? will you now not take your fill? ❜❜