#sacricide

‘ i don’t regret it at all.’ it is overstimulating, the house, the family, the food, but so long as he can catch a breath every now and again, it’s worth treading water for. he folds his hands across his stomach and returns the half smile, at ease, which is not something that can be said when barry occupies a room alone. he doesn’t imagine michael inspires that same feeling in everyone, and while it’s only an assumption pieced together from the company of other men they served with, he feels special- individual even, which is more important.