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ellis ginsberg. ([personal profile] heorte) wrote2019-09-10 03:02 pm
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-20 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know what Jone figures she's doing, [ she's crafty. it's something. ] But I'm not breaking a hand on you for nothing. None of this — one free hit shite.
Edited (word rep) 2021-02-20 08:13 (UTC)
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-20 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
If I wanted to die, we wouldn't be having this chat.
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-20 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
I don't see how it hurts.

[ like. other than literally ]

You think it's gonna settle it for you?
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-20 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
This — this is the kind of shit I mean.
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-20 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? I know so much, why are you wandering around like you got ducklings? I know so much, what d'you tell them? Because it's not this.

[ (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ]
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-20 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
I don't care what you tell them. I need you to stop playing dead.
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1/2

[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-20 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
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spongebob voice: one hour later

[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-21 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's night. Handy: Fewer folks in the way.

Vance waits under the orange, swinging light of a lantern; still, eyes cast strange to the dirt. His shoulder curls as a startled cat — doesn't uncoil. He stands frozen, with no alarm in sight.

No healers, either. Thank fuck. Seems there's still some turnover on the night shift (or just fewer brawls in the middle of it). They've a little time, at least, before being nagged into their graves.
]
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-21 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
He charges.

Doesn't matter if it even connects — a barrel run below the chest — some things you just gotta start before you got a chance to stop them. To think, or freeze up. Cool down,

Same thing. Bad odds, anyway: Eighteen inches between them and Ellis ever the fucking anvil. Bad odds if you want anything other than a break.

(Needs one. Conversations get heavy on two heads.)
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-02-21 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Impact rocks the breath from him, then again: Sends Ellis' fist glancing off his jaw. There's blood in his ears, in his teeth, but nothing's cracked loose —

A friend of mine, The yard is quiet. It fucking hurt,

Somewhere above, the first soppy flakes of snow drift down to cap the walls, the grounds; their discarded sleeves. Vance's foot slips. It drives him forward again, lower now, stomping for an instep. Pivoted, an elbow for a hip. Trying to turn him, to tear some of that weight down. Like pulling at a tower stone.

(Pointless. The great grey shadow of her, the damp earth.)
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-04-15 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
And so it goes —

For a time. Not a long one, not so long as you'd think. Longer still than anything real. Maybe that's what finally stalls him, fingers dug into Ellis' side and gripping for air. Comes a time you can't pretend what's holding you up.

He starts to make a noise. Maybe it sounds a little like sorry, but it sounds a lot more like a cough. Wet, ugly. Look it in the mouth and you'd call it a sob,

So he shuts it. Quick enough to be true.
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[personal profile] pittance 2021-05-05 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe there's more to say. Maybe. But it's not worth saying: I don't know what to do with a future where I'm dead, well. That's all of them. You don't know what to do with one where you aren't,

His hand straightens, flattens; becomes a palm to thump once across Ellis' chest. He's good. They're done here.