we might as well be strangers [MEMERY]
SO while I was bored and harassing Dele, I decide to do...a thing. I am big on having soundtracks for my characters, and so are lots of you! THEREFORE: give me a song lyric (one or two lines please, that's a lot more evocative than an entire song) and I will write you a drabble for a character YOU PLAY and I PLAY that goes with it. Even if they'
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Somewhere in there I'm sure I made you cry
But I can't remember if we said good bye
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Take your time, of course. I just like this meme.
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FOR YOU:
The thing is that for two women who look remarkably alike, they have almost nothing in common. Melaka is quick to snap, light motion and grace like a flutter of wings - she can cut you in two, and she'd do it as soon as look twice.
Liz might have had those razor edges once, but they're blunted by sadness and life, and there are days when she's not sure of the difference between the two. It's true that the constant battering of sediment and waves is what makes a pearl, but it's what erodes rocks into nothing, too.
This is one thing they both understand: There are jobs in the world that no matter how many people you have around you, will always leave you alone.
"Do you miss him?" Her breath is smoke, heavier than the air around them. It hangs over their heads in the low light; shining black hair here and there cut by purples and blues, here tangled, sleepy.
"Yeah. I do."
They're not talking about the same people.
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