Sorry, did my big manly muscles pull your arm from its socket?
[church now is not the TIME for FLEXING MUSCLES that are (probably) NOT THERE]
And I think bodies are good excuses, cockbite. We don't even have any more of these things lying around, and I am not walking around in one of those rust buckets. I'd fall apart the second you so much as breathed in my direction. No thanks.
[He sets to work in relative quiet after that, at least for a short time. The chairs seem like a lost cause, but the bigger bits of furniture, the rested out filing cabinets, a desk grown fuzzy with mildew, scrape across the floor in front of the door. At least until he opens his mouth again because he can't just keep it locked inside of his chest anymore.]
And I'm not spending any more time in your head than is absolutely necessary, if it's all the same to you.
[Did that sound bitter? Hm. That may have come out a little bitter. Bitten back. Bitten tongue. A sense memory of blood behind teeth, and he's not sure if it's his.
But they're not doing this--this, this right here--until they're safe. Or as safe as they're going to get.]
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[church now is not the TIME for FLEXING MUSCLES that are (probably) NOT THERE]
And I think bodies are good excuses, cockbite. We don't even have any more of these things lying around, and I am not walking around in one of those rust buckets. I'd fall apart the second you so much as breathed in my direction. No thanks.
[He sets to work in relative quiet after that, at least for a short time. The chairs seem like a lost cause, but the bigger bits of furniture, the rested out filing cabinets, a desk grown fuzzy with mildew, scrape across the floor in front of the door. At least until he opens his mouth again because he can't just keep it locked inside of his chest anymore.]
And I'm not spending any more time in your head than is absolutely necessary, if it's all the same to you.
[Did that sound bitter? Hm. That may have come out a little bitter. Bitten back. Bitten tongue. A sense memory of blood behind teeth, and he's not sure if it's his.
But they're not doing this--this, this right here--until they're safe. Or as safe as they're going to get.]