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Aᴜɢᴜsᴛɪɴᴇ ᴛʜᴇ Fɪʀsᴛ, Sᴀɪɴᴛ ᴏғ Pᴀᴛɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ([personal profile] butnotyet) wrote in [personal profile] necrolord 2022-09-29 03:44 pm (UTC)

«You used to tell us stories, sometimes — do you remember?»

[ Wistful.

Distant.

Distracted? Perhaps; the sort of distracted that says that this, actually, is the distraction — this conversation — away from some other unpleasantness before him. ]


«You'd sing, sometimes, as well, but I dare say that would come across rather more strangely, under the... circumstances.»

[ There's an itch, under his words; an ache; the awful sensation of bones deforming, melting away — and this isn't the first time, in recent months, that John has felt a tail multiply the number of his caudal vertebrae, now, is it?

(It's not the first time he's felt ribs grow into place, either, is it —) ]


«Tell me a story?»

[ (He is very nearly begging, judging by his sudden volume and breathless tone.) ]

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