Mornings, he'll see her and ask how she slept, and if she got an extra scoop of jam. They'll often have the conversation about stirring backwards, because it isn't easy to come up for new things to say. Not as clever as the ones she said before.
He works all day, doing her calculations, and she tells him when he's messed up, or when he's going too fast. Sometimes she reminds him to eat, sometimes she doesn't. Sometimes, she sits with him and does her Latin homework.
When she's (he's) feeling particularly cruel, she asks what happened to him, why he looks so old, so wild.
When she's cruelest, she asks why she still looks so young.
They don't lie down together at night, but they do in his dreams. In his dreams, she is alive and vibrant, and he feels as if she knows everything, as if she is trying to tell him answers to questions he doesn't even understand.
When he wakes up, she says good morning, and he pretends nothing has changed. But he can't stir backwards.
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Mornings, he'll see her and ask how she slept, and if she got an extra scoop of jam. They'll often have the conversation about stirring backwards, because it isn't easy to come up for new things to say. Not as clever as the ones she said before.
He works all day, doing her calculations, and she tells him when he's messed up, or when he's going too fast. Sometimes she reminds him to eat, sometimes she doesn't. Sometimes, she sits with him and does her Latin homework.
When she's (he's) feeling particularly cruel, she asks what happened to him, why he looks so old, so wild.
When she's cruelest, she asks why she still looks so young.
They don't lie down together at night, but they do in his dreams. In his dreams, she is alive and vibrant, and he feels as if she knows everything, as if she is trying to tell him answers to questions he doesn't even understand.
When he wakes up, she says good morning, and he pretends nothing has changed. But he can't stir backwards.
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thank you so, so, so much.
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