❝ tell me … do you ever feel a strange sadness as dusk falls ? ❞
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✧ 💉 ʜᴏʀʀɪᴘɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ 💉 ⊰⊰ there’s an air that hangs over them that reeks of sorrow. two creatures of this earth with very different pasts &&. experiences, with completely opposite personalities, &&. still they come to meet here in the middle. this man is dangerous, she can feel it from the way he stands or the way his eyes move, but strangely enough there is not a trace of fear in tsumiki’s body.
it’s somber, this moment between them, meeting under the dying sun between wistful glances. the nurse isn’t sure if she should try to talk to him, &&. with the worry that she would upset this tranquility of theirs, she doesn’t. she only stands in quiet, fingers tapping rhythmically against the bandages of her wrist. then he speaks. then she is snapped out of her time being.
sadness … it is a feeling that had wrapped itself around her rib cage every single day that she’d ever existed. it lives in her mother’s touch, in the glares of her classmates, in the cries of desperation at night. as the sun sets into the west, bleeding its wonderful colors across the sky if only one were to look up to appreciate it, she watches the being known as sadness creep onto her all over again.
she expects a wave of tears to come with, like usual. it doesn’t. she is left with a hollow ball in her throat &&. a rope around her lungs.
❝ … i think,❞ she speaks after a heartbeat, chin raising to greet the unknown world above. her voice falters, but only for a millisecond. ❝ i think it’s because twilight is when time … collapses. time slows down to a single moment &&. stretches it out while the sun flickers … it’s when the world’s realities all stop to draw in a single breath, t - together … the sadness, it … it’s the spirits from other worlds – our past, present, &&. future – call out to us to lament that we should appreciate our moments still here …❞ a pause, embarrassment tints her cheeks pink. ❝o - or. s - something like that …❞
