“I’d thought of poisoning him but it seemed ungrateful.”
There’s a bloodless honesty to his saying so, ill-matched with his delivery -- light and casual, as if in the spirit of a joke.
Thot’s knobbly spine lifts under Ellis’ fingers, the push and touch of nose and paw cold until she’s eeled down to stretch herself across his lap. Her legs go wherever there is room for legs to go, jutted up or out or across. Inelegant. But comfortable.
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Date: 2021-05-06 07:09 pm (UTC)Speaking in support.
“I’d thought of poisoning him but it seemed ungrateful.”
There’s a bloodless honesty to his saying so, ill-matched with his delivery -- light and casual, as if in the spirit of a joke.
Thot’s knobbly spine lifts under Ellis’ fingers, the push and touch of nose and paw cold until she’s eeled down to stretch herself across his lap. Her legs go wherever there is room for legs to go, jutted up or out or across. Inelegant. But comfortable.
“I appreciate the concern.”