5 (short) things Delirium does in the City.
A.
The City is cold.
But it's warm if you know where to look. Delirium only knows where to look sometimes. Sometimes she finds one of the heroes on Patrol and follows them a ways. She likes the ones that run the best although she couldn't really tell you why.
It's a secret, but if you ask her nicely and give her a nice kiss on the cheek, she'll tell you. It's because they're warm and the City is cold, but it's warm if you know where to look.
2.
Tank Girl's voice is magic. Nothing will ever convince Delirium otherwise.
III
Delirium tends to forget who is where and who is not in the City. When Raven moves, it takes her five different tries to find the house. The first three times she ends up back in the Tower. Sometimes she looks for her Family. She's still looking for Norman.
She's never stopped looking for Elaine.
four
She loves them. She really does, but she thinks she's not supposed to and she knows that someday, they're all going to die and not come back. That's all right, she's used to that by now. But the thing is... The thing is she knows it irritates Desire and Desire is her only Family in the City. Sometimes she wishes Despair was here, so that Desire wouldn't be so irritable and she could go back to loving them freely.
the end
She doesn't mean to or maybe she does or maybe or maybe or maybe she doesn't want to go back. Even though this place is cold and doesn't have Barnabus and is all wrong and bad and messed up and full of shadows. She wants to run away and she wants to scream and cry and hurt herself, but there isn't any blood inside of her, just fish and she doesn't want them to leave, she doesn't.
There's an alley that ends in a dead end. There's broken glass by the trash can that never seems to get cleaned up and if you look at it right, the reflections make it seem like you're looking through the whole world. She curls up at the end of the alley and murmurs things and cries and screams.
And sometimes... Just sometimes... Someone comes along and puts a firm hand on her back, picks her up and takes her to the shelter where the blue Saint and the greedy orange Demon live.
The City is cold.
But it's warm if you know where to look. Delirium only knows where to look sometimes. Sometimes she finds one of the heroes on Patrol and follows them a ways. She likes the ones that run the best although she couldn't really tell you why.
It's a secret, but if you ask her nicely and give her a nice kiss on the cheek, she'll tell you. It's because they're warm and the City is cold, but it's warm if you know where to look.
2.
Tank Girl's voice is magic. Nothing will ever convince Delirium otherwise.
III
Delirium tends to forget who is where and who is not in the City. When Raven moves, it takes her five different tries to find the house. The first three times she ends up back in the Tower. Sometimes she looks for her Family. She's still looking for Norman.
She's never stopped looking for Elaine.
four
She loves them. She really does, but she thinks she's not supposed to and she knows that someday, they're all going to die and not come back. That's all right, she's used to that by now. But the thing is... The thing is she knows it irritates Desire and Desire is her only Family in the City. Sometimes she wishes Despair was here, so that Desire wouldn't be so irritable and she could go back to loving them freely.
the end
She doesn't mean to or maybe she does or maybe or maybe or maybe she doesn't want to go back. Even though this place is cold and doesn't have Barnabus and is all wrong and bad and messed up and full of shadows. She wants to run away and she wants to scream and cry and hurt herself, but there isn't any blood inside of her, just fish and she doesn't want them to leave, she doesn't.
There's an alley that ends in a dead end. There's broken glass by the trash can that never seems to get cleaned up and if you look at it right, the reflections make it seem like you're looking through the whole world. She curls up at the end of the alley and murmurs things and cries and screams.
And sometimes... Just sometimes... Someone comes along and puts a firm hand on her back, picks her up and takes her to the shelter where the blue Saint and the greedy orange Demon live.