[what's one more monster to a carnival full of them? this is where he should be. it's the only place he -can- be, because he can't stand the alternative.
...
his head tilts some minuscule degree toward that hand on his shoulder, but he doesn't recognize the gesture more than this. she wants to drag him back to the place where he has to acknowledge his brother is dead again, gone again and you SWORE you'd protect him-- and in all likelihood, everyone else in this wretched freak show would die, too cold, and still. empty. they'd all be empty and everything would be so deathly quiet all over again. there's nothing he can do.
no subject
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his head tilts some minuscule degree toward that hand on his shoulder, but he doesn't recognize the gesture more than this. she wants to drag him back to the place where he has to acknowledge his brother is dead again, gone again and you SWORE you'd protect him-- and in all likelihood, everyone else in this wretched freak show would die, too cold, and still. empty. they'd all be empty and everything would be so deathly quiet all over again. there's nothing he can do.
...nothing he can do.]
...Go back, Ciel.