doors no one ever quite closed

{Across The Line - Sharlo West, Mariah Drummond, Firenze Lane}

( Sometimes he wishes he'd picked somewhere less obvious for the tattoo marking his allegiance, but he was a little arrogant at seventeen. He isn't arrogant anymore; or, at least, he tries not to be. )

Across The Line Timeline

( ATL )

it was nobody's fault and therefore everyone's

{Across The Line - Bryde Brooker, Erik Trelawney, Friday South}

( He wonders how long Erik has been in love with Friday and if Erik has even realised. )

swept into corners like so much dust

{Across The Line - Friday South, Bryde Brooker, Erik Trelawney}

( Friday is tired and bitter but he is not intentionally cruel, not if he can help it. )

things that got wasted or just withered on the vine

{Across The Line - Friday South, Bryde Brooker}

( This is tragic, Friday knows, walking through Carinn on the familiar path to the place that is the root of his very own spectacular downfall because it is at least a known quantity. )

we were criminals once (palms flat to the wall)

{Across The Line - Friday South, Bryde Brooker, Erik Trelawney}

( He had his choice of places, from the highest brothels who gold-plate the notched bedposts, to the filthy ones crawling with dirt where a penny can get you a handful of half-starved desire or at the very least a disease to remember it by. )