alina has the decency not to say so aloud. but he would hardly be the first to promise her transparency and honesty, only to be disappointed by the fabrication it had all been. how deceptively disarming human nature can truly be. ]
Good.
[ she says, instead, like it could truly ever be so easy. like an agreed upon contract could hold him to those terms. she rearranges her mouth back into an impression of a smile, forcing levity into the air, lest they suffocate beneath the weight of what goes unspoken. ]
I hardly need to suffer a bout of food poisoning after days of eating nothing but paste.
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alina has the decency not to say so aloud. but he would hardly be the first to promise her transparency and honesty, only to be disappointed by the fabrication it had all been. how deceptively disarming human nature can truly be. ]
Good.
[ she says, instead, like it could truly ever be so easy. like an agreed upon contract could hold him to those terms. she rearranges her mouth back into an impression of a smile, forcing levity into the air, lest they suffocate beneath the weight of what goes unspoken. ]
I hardly need to suffer a bout of food poisoning after days of eating nothing but paste.