‘ stay in bed. ’ ( bravest :/ )
you are the bones of a thousand deaths . rotten , illicit pain at her touch , her words : she speaks so plainly for a child , kindly for all the times she has bereft life from his skeleton corpse . child says , stay in bed and sans hears , with not so much as ears to know , please . rest .
he’s not sick , ill all but in mind alone . the couch has become her permanent home in this house of his , and every day he opens his door to see her there . GRIM REAPER ON HIS DOORSTEP , EVERY DAY STILL HE ANSWERS , EVERY DAY PAST SHE STAYS . he wonders , with quiet , tired sockets , when will she cross the threshold once more , and rip the soul from his chest once again ?
sans is not in-complicit . he has mangled child’s body time and time again , given as much as he has been gifted in turn . HE IS LUCKY NO ONE REMEMBERS , NO ONE BUT THOSE EYES , GENTLY , ASKING , stay in bed .
skeleton is tired . he feels it , all of his deaths , but ghost pains and the fault lines that stitch him together more than magic or joints do ( can she feel hers ? gifts , laced like poison . ) . death and her care - taker are a funny pair , aren’t they ? they must be , for the soft humor that crescents in his grin as spined phalanges run through unruly hair .
❛ * i’ll sleep when i’m dead , kid . ❜ it’s not an invitation .
@bravest sent illness and injury .