#nightsounds

Bat with Katydids and Grasshoppers

Gouache on paper, 2021

Ladies and Lemons…

Lonely Lion…

poe had spent a significant portion of his childhood and teenage years sitting on the roof of his family's ranch. they were outside any big city, away from any light pollution and the stars had spread out in front of him for miles and miles. sometimes he would get so lose in just looking up at them that he would stay up there all night, go to school bleary eyed and half asleep. he'd never exactly thought about aliens or other beings all that serious, too fascinated by the things he could actually see in the night sky to worry about what might be hiding behind the blinding lights of stars.

but, he's older now, he's seen a lot more things, including things that would make anyone doubt what they had always been told was right. that's why he finds himself in a basement, hidden really, office in an off shoot fbi building. and that's got to be saying something about how seriously he takes this, poe does not like being in government buildings.

"okay, explain it to me again. this time focus on the how, not the why, you're good at the why." it's a compliment, mostly, he just need's agent mulder to focus. "you're very convincing, but that isn't enough." if it was, poe would've had a much, much different career

@nightsounds' piper said : " hey, stay for a while. i gotta share this popcorn with someone. "

ㅤHIS MOM HAD ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD HIM BETTER THAN MOST. when he was little he didn't understand / couldn't understand why. sometimes though, when she didn't think he was looking, 𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚊 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚊𝚍𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜; like he brought her both pain and joy. as he grew, and when he was old enough to be told, it was abundantly clear as to why— chris had died.

not him, of course not him, but another him. another chris had come from his future 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝, and died in the process of changing everything— but as it was, he had changed it. he had changed it all, but at a cost.

so to say his mother understood him better than most, wasn't at all incorrect. it was just that before she knew him, she knew another chris. one who died 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚊 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎, to give them all a chance; the whole world included.