#shattered

The accents are multifarious. Several of the doctors and nurses are Indians who have recently come to the UK after Brexit to help prop up the NHS. There are also Africans, Afro-Caribbeans, Thais, Filipinos, Irish, Poles, and so on. The only person here who speaks standard, middle-class English is me. A tone of voice I taught myself in my early twenties, having grown up half-cockney in the South London suburbs, which was full of East Enders who left their neighbourhoods after being bombed in the Blitz.

i thought of a scene where August would like, allow Declan to hit or harm him without fighting back as a method of gaining trust (knowing that Declan is too weak to cause anything that couldn't be healed via vampiric regeneration) no clue if that's something he would actually do in canon but i thought you might like the idea

Conversation is like play for adults; in fact, it is play. Serious and unserious, pointless and momentous, conversation is not a meeting, a job or a career.

I feel depressed. I am in despair, I don't want to be here, I want to go home, I'd rather die now.