𝚘𝚑, 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚕. one that humankind will never even begin to understand —— one that peter didn’t until death took him. no one warned him what a solemn thing it was to be a still life; to be a spectral portrait, patrolling the same four walls into a vast eternity, timelessly permanent. peter watched those around him stiffly traipse into old age, as his existence stayed as changeless as his death in 1986. 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚍, 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚍. he remained as perfectly imperfect as he had been in life, yet subtly ethereal —— one would not know he is nothing more than a photograph, a brief snapshot trapped inside an interminable time, if it wasn’t for the lack of touch. he dwells on it often. this incessant inability to feel. peter longs for that initial scorched sensation from a first long drag of a cigarette. a burn of a good scotch. a cup of tea even. or even just the simple kinetic motion of picking something up —— something to keep the boredom at bay. peter supposes rosalie was rather lucky in that sense, to be able to touch & feel more than he thinks he ever could. there’s a distant connectivity between the cold ones, a chaotic sense of kinship between them. 𝚙𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚞𝚎𝚕 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚜.
❝ it’s certainly a lonely thing... ❞ an imperishable drawl hails him from scotland, another attribute that couldn’t ever be lost in their time’s continuity. ❝ watching the people around you get old as you stay the same. unchanging. ❞
✉️ : 𝚒 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚒𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎, 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐. @roslithe.











