"Twice," she chokes out in explanation. Then swallows and sniffs.
But there's significance in that, the doubles and the pairs. It always comes in pairs, even she's coming up in pairs. When she mumbles, "Two by two," a shudder makes its way up her spine.
It's been a long time since she's thought of them like that. Taxon has been men in suits and dead things and isolation, but them? Of them close and threatening, blood boiling out the eyes and blue, blue until it hits the air, blue out in the black, and River tries weakly to rear back with a frustrated, anxious whine in the back of her throat.
"Blood, and... Blue." The panting roiling fear is back. "Circles back. Hands, and they reach in, they reach inside."
She's pushing again, because he reached inside, too, and it's all too much a muddled mess for her to pull them apart.
i try to sleep, they're wide awake, they won't let me alone;
But there's significance in that, the doubles and the pairs. It always comes in pairs, even she's coming up in pairs. When she mumbles, "Two by two," a shudder makes its way up her spine.
It's been a long time since she's thought of them like that. Taxon has been men in suits and dead things and isolation, but them? Of them close and threatening, blood boiling out the eyes and blue, blue until it hits the air, blue out in the black, and River tries weakly to rear back with a frustrated, anxious whine in the back of her throat.
"Blood, and... Blue." The panting roiling fear is back. "Circles back. Hands, and they reach in, they reach inside."
She's pushing again, because he reached inside, too, and it's all too much a muddled mess for her to pull them apart.