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a man for flowers ✿ ( INIGO ) ([personal profile] flatteries) wrote2024-07-14 01:37 pm

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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-10-27 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Does she worry about it? Quite a bit. Isn't she supposed to? Because of that, because of that one little thing... She can't hear the voices anymore. She turns inward to find that connection and it's just gone. A stifling emptiness left in its place. She thought... She thought she was going to die, consumed from the inside out by an intense hunger that she couldn't understand the reason for, but still knew enough to be terrified of.

She nods a little, her tiny brow furrowed as she presses her hands a little harder just above her stomach. "It was something bad. I didn't know, but it had to be. Because she won't talk to me anymore. If-- If it wasn't something wrong, then she would still talk to me, right?"

She would still be here, would still want her, would tell her what she should do now to make everything better. She doesn't want to feel this way. She's never been alone before, and she doesn't know how to undo what's been done to make her this way. She doesn't... even know if she wants to undo it. She likes the feeling of being a whole person of her own, but she doesn't like being so alone with it.

Tears bead in the corners of her eyes, like she wants to cry but she's trying hard not to. "I'm scared. What if... she doesn't come back?"
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-11-03 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
The girl watches him with eyes bright and trusting, despite the tears that threaten to break them both. She takes in his words like water through roots that she can't feel anymore, sifting them for something... Something that makes her feel whole again.

She doesn't find it. But she does find hope, and that's almost as good.

"...Really?" She really wants that. She really, really wants this feeling to stop. For things to go back to how they were before, where she felt safe and protected, nestled in the green shade of an entity that towered over her, an embrace more loving than her own mother's. She's never been so far away before, so... Maybe? Maybe it's true. It's the most hope she's had offered to her since all of this started.

"How soon?... What do I do to make it sooner?"
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-11-08 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
The difficult part is waiting, but the voices had always whispered patience to her, so maybe... Maybe she could trust him. Maybe they wanted her to trust him?... He speaks so softly to her, and his smile is so kind that she feels the warmth of it in her chest. A tiny flame to chase away the emptiness.

She wants to hold tightly to that. To swallow it so it lives within her, buried in the warm earth that she never felt before, blooming a bright sapling of her own to nurture. But she doesn't know how, and he isn't like her. She can't sink into him or him into her, so she wrings her hands together and nods shyly.

"How do you... not feel alone?"
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-11-25 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Make sure you have someone else with you. That does seem simple enough... Though she's been around others before, and it wasn't quite the same. Maybe she hadn't found the right person then? Maybe it mattered that he was offering, and that she had to choose. She's never had to do that before.

"Okay."

The girl still looks uncertain, but she wants to try. Maybe he can help, with his kind warmth and his soft words. Maybe she doesn't have to feel like this.

"What do we do?" Is there something different that they need to make him her person? She looks up at him expectantly, waiting for instruction.
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-12-09 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Something that she likes doing?... Is that something that will make him her person? She chews on her lip, and nods after a brief moment. It's not difficult to think of something. There are plenty of things that she likes to do.

"I like climbing trees, and catching insects. And running... I'm very fast. My mummy says I'm the best at chasing rabbits out of the flowers."
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[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-12-27 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Has she made flower crowns before?...

"I have. ...I'm not very good at it." In time, she will be, once her fingers are dexterous enough to tie the stems without fumbling with the knots or breaking them. But she's not yet the woman that she will be, and her motor skills are lacking for the task.

She likes the idea of flowers and chasing rabbits, though--and the praise that he offers seems to brighten her demeanor just a little. She's amenable to the idea of listening to what he knows about the flowers here, different as they are to what she's used to. There's a shyness about her as she inquires further about his offer:

"Can you make me one?"
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Wrap here?

[personal profile] fragmentaryblue 2024-12-31 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
The girl follows hesitantly after him as he starts to walk, first one uncertain step after and then three more, before moving quicker to catch up to his strides. The offer to hold her hand is met with an eager nod, and she reaches up to take his hand with both of hers, holding on tightly like it might be taken from her again without warning.

But she seems to have left behind the tears that she was shedding before, taking after her new friend's hopefulness instead. She'll allow herself to be lead wherever he likes, so long as he doesn't leave.