[ She turns herself into her, and it takes -- more than it should be to learn how to be close to another when she has catalogues of her spied upon moments of others doing this to draw reference from. Just no one prepared her for the soft warmth of another human being, willingly being near her. Not the cold observation of a fearful team of scientists, not the ghosts of cold metal being joined to her spine, her skull.
For awhile she can't do much else but lay against her and breathe, scared of how much space she's taking up, of how much this truly was to her. Of Jack's memory conjured up somehow and destroying it all. She leans into the echo of Ilde's thoughts -- how short she'd known her, but how easy it was to let Ilde into her mind, to let her lay in turn against the bed of her thoughts as Ilde let Angel lay against her.
Perhaps that is alone why she tries to put it into words. ]
It is. [ she shifts against her side, her arm settling low across Ilde's hips, her eyelashes blinking against her shoulder. The warm trickle of breath as she tries to ease the words flat. ] Keep them close, don't let them out of your sight. They don't know how fragile they are.
[ People never knew, they never knew how easily they could be shattered. Did Parker? Did it matter anyway? It had happened as it had, regardless of it all. ]
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For awhile she can't do much else but lay against her and breathe, scared of how much space she's taking up, of how much this truly was to her. Of Jack's memory conjured up somehow and destroying it all. She leans into the echo of Ilde's thoughts -- how short she'd known her, but how easy it was to let Ilde into her mind, to let her lay in turn against the bed of her thoughts as Ilde let Angel lay against her.
Perhaps that is alone why she tries to put it into words. ]
It is. [ she shifts against her side, her arm settling low across Ilde's hips, her eyelashes blinking against her shoulder. The warm trickle of breath as she tries to ease the words flat. ] Keep them close, don't let them out of your sight. They don't know how fragile they are.
[ People never knew, they never knew how easily they could be shattered. Did Parker? Did it matter anyway? It had happened as it had, regardless of it all. ]