#ruminaes

❝     you're hiding something from me.    ❞     ACCUSATORY.     it sits heavy on her tongue,    familiar & comfortable,     taking up exactly what it must & what she allows.      even here,     even facing her friend,       she knows it well,     has no reservations in unleashing it.     yet  UNEASINESS  has made its own home in her belly,      rooted in days of unknowing,     nurtured with each passing hour that she does not hear something  ----  anything.     ❝     YOU’VE BEEN LYING TO ME.      what are you not telling me,     cecilia ?    ❞

❝    WE  SHOULD  TELL  HER.    ❞    bandaged hands rest against the sides of her mug,     gaze finding no  HESITANCE  in keeping steady with her friend’s.     inquisitive.    demanding.    expectant.      ❝     you know she won’t like being kept in the dark about this.    SHE  MISSES  YOU  ALREADY.    ❞

EXHAUSTION  WEIGHS  HEAVY    in the dark circles that make the green of her eyes shine even more  VIVID.     the silence,    however,    weighs heavier,     as it settles thickly around the two women that remain in the absence of their superiors.     AT  LEAST,    they would be her superiors,     if she actually worked for them.      BUREAUCRACY.       her chin resting in her up - turned palm,     she turns her gaze to her remaining company,      a faux curiosity curling her lips.      she’s tired.      ❝    ———    BELROSE,    was it ?   ❞