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POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 8:50:48 GMT
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“HM.”

another pauses creates a mental timer for the boiling water. a coarse hiss escapes when he pours, eventually settling into a pair of porcelain cups. jasmine pouches float at first but they sink by the time he sets them down. a single eye watches the murky earthen tones pool as the water becomes increasingly unclear.



he stands at the other end of the table. joining her but not quite sitting.


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POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 7:10:03 GMT
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“AH.”

a pause slips under the duress of a kettle’s whistle. steam shoots through the nozzle until he moves it to an unlit stove top.

i mean, do you take it plain.


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POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 6:22:28 GMT
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“I CAN TELL THEM APART NOW,” he confides. “the ones that aren’t meant for consumption.

which is about as detailed as he can get. for identifying between them is still an impossible task. they look exactly the same to him. subtle details that most can differentiate under scrutiny, has always been his weak point. a lesson she had tried to drill into him by sending him off into petalburg woods many times before.

again, something he had only learned after he had needed to. out of necessity, and out of abandonment.

plain, no?


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POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 5:42:48 GMT
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A BLACK KETTLE RESTS AGAINST AN UNTOUCHED STOVE TOP. flames billow at the turn of a knob, sparking several times, before the flame start to roast at its underside. blue and red clash against its metal surface but it takes time for it to heat. the water inside it remains calm as it cooks, well aware and unbothered.

his selection is well stocked and untouched, as per the course for a home that used but never lived in. a hand reaches out for the tea she prefers but he hesitates before he can reach for the packet. something fresh, dried and jarred from a harvest, had always been her preference.

something he had not prepared himself since before coming back to hoenn.

right.

he knows the answer in his head but lingering self awareness plucks at his consciousness. what he knows and what is real are two different things. the biting words she left him with serve as a reminder that she is not her, despite what his eyes and ears tell him.

jasmine?


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POSTED ON Mar 26, 2024 4:49:58 GMT
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THE THICK FABRIC OF HIS COAT is shed onto a nearby chair. what life remains, sleuths through the kitchen, infinitely smaller than before as his figure seems to shrink into itself. his own reservation makes him seem more fit for a specter–one she has yet to tame–than another companion.

in many ways, he is the cait alfric to her fernando silph. but he does not pang her with guilt or nag with whispers of the dead. he only has one question that flickers to life under a ticking stove top.

should i make some tea?


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POSTED ON Mar 10, 2024 15:52:15 GMT
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HIS FINGERS LATCH ON FOR DEAR LIFE. like a child reaching for their mother, his grip finds its heculean strength from need. only when the air is pushed out from between them, until palm touches palm, does he relax.

fernando does not answer her. nor does he look at her. he diverts his stare onto the path ahead of him, surveying past what the murky skies hide in their purple and grey.

he shepherds her away as promised. away from the streets of slateport, so that the city may rest easy and empty. he brings her to a place she has known.

his cozy abode.


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ANGER BOILS. like steam, it rises to the surface, an expression as malleable as metal and equally conductive to the heat of the occasion. no matter what her voice may sound like, or what she may appear as–even the nuisance in how she speaks–the words do not match the character she portrays.



it infuriates him. drives him crazy. like a devout reader ingesting a bastardized rendition of their favorite character, he’s not sure whether it is pain or hate that fuels him. regardless of what it is, it forces him to break character too.

makes him an open book.

an arm reaches out. as if to grab her by force. to make her comply as she had so haughtily goaded him to. but it stops short, unable to commit to such a travesty. held back as his eye travels down the skin-deep scars tracing down her forearm.

it extends, palm up, fingers stretch wide open.


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POSTED ON Feb 29, 2024 5:46:47 GMT
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“YOU HAVE NO CHOICE,” he says matter-of-factly. like an observation of fact rather than one of force.

because you are so binary, herrera.

predictable. malleable. exactly what he needs considering the volatility of his past prospects. and the best part is he’s already done all the work himself. for what does fernando have to say before others come to him with spittle foaming at their mouth while barking matias’ name?

so immolate for me, as you always wanted to.


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POSTED ON Feb 29, 2024 5:33:06 GMT
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“GO HOME,” he says with rising inflection. both a warning and a chance to defuse this from becoming an escalated matter. for whatever odds she may hold, results are never certain. not until exercised.

i can spare a modicum of misfortune and decline.

the same cannot be said for her. even in the event she would eclipse him, he would sacrifice himself all over again. because she deserves the most. for what he couldn’t give to her before.

for what she wouldn’t accept back then.

go home so i can rest peacefully knowing slateport streets are empty.


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“IS THAT SO?”

there’s no resistance to his push. for his size and boardness, fernando moves as easily as matias can throw . his back slings against the bed and he lays there. flounders in words that struggle to bring him back to life.

exactly. and no one else does either.

self satisfaction climbs ever so close to a smile.

but they think they know you. which is why your impatience will be my greatest shield.


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POSTED ON Feb 29, 2024 4:40:26 GMT
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“A TALL ORDER SEEING HOW RAGGED HE’S LEFT YOU,” fernando quips with little scorn. the words taunt but only because navy has set himself up as both punchline and punching bag. fernando’s face finds no humor in his words.

but one we will be counting on should the future require it.

their conservation is interrupted by several league members entering the room. evidently, the medical personnel he had requested earlier based on their white colored uniforms.

until then, i suggest you better yourself until the situation arises–you won’t be killing anyone if a single pokemon reduces you to this.


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AN IMPERFECT CRACK BLISTERS across the surface of her image. like watching a hairline fracture slowly ease its way through a vase taken out a kiln too early. close, but not nearly perfect enough.

indeed.”

their conversation isolates them from slow paced stragglers. the streets have emptied out well beyond the eye can see. only the small howl of winding winds and the smell of burnt incense still linger.

we eat noodles to ensure a long life, delay washing out our hair which will wash away our good luck, and avoid dallying where crowds have dispersed lest we end up all alone.

he doesn’t bat an eye.

you should know that odd numbers bring superstition on days like today.


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“VERY WELL THEN.”

the mattress squeaks under shifting weight. he remains rigid throughout, not even so much as sparing her a glance. he doesn’t need to at this point. like usual, he knows what and where he need to pay his attention to.

as you were, morales.

his nose wrinkles in his own reflection.

i’ll be waiting.


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“THUS FAR,” he slips in as a tactful reminder. minor semantics but important, nevertheless.



fernando says nothing at the first instance of the buzzing. but his eyes grow big and the lookback he gives paxton should convey what they’re both thinking.

a hand strays to his waist.


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