"I need this."
"Do you? Do you really? You look like a common harlot."
"There is blending that needs to happen. What? Do you think no one will notice that I am gone? They will all come searching."
"...."
"Don't be afraid. They can't will me away a second time. The world is older. They are older."
"You are older."
"But I have something they don't have. I have patience. We are not all the same, you know? You think my kin and I are sloppy and fucking out of control. Maybe. Maybe we once were. Maybe we still are. But I waited. I waited long, in the dark, gone and banished. Do you think I would be stupid enough to barrel into their arms with out some kind of plan?"
"I want to be here for you. I want to do this for you. You were gone a long time."
"And now I am here. And you are here. And you are going to do this for me because you, somewhere in that corpse, loved me once upon a time. Didn't you?"
"....."
"I remember. I thought of you every minute in that fucking tomb. There was not a moment that I was not encouraged to survive because of you."
"I did love you. I do love you."
"I know you do, sweet, sweet thing. You were always, and will always be, my favorite. Till the end."
"... Will this be the end?"
"Yes."
"Will I see you again?"
Blood splashed. A riot of red against the walls. It pooled so darkly at the tiled floor. Bones clattered in a wet slump inside a saggy carapace.
"No."
"Do you? Do you really? You look like a common harlot."
"There is blending that needs to happen. What? Do you think no one will notice that I am gone? They will all come searching."
"...."
"Don't be afraid. They can't will me away a second time. The world is older. They are older."
"You are older."
"But I have something they don't have. I have patience. We are not all the same, you know? You think my kin and I are sloppy and fucking out of control. Maybe. Maybe we once were. Maybe we still are. But I waited. I waited long, in the dark, gone and banished. Do you think I would be stupid enough to barrel into their arms with out some kind of plan?"
"I want to be here for you. I want to do this for you. You were gone a long time."
"And now I am here. And you are here. And you are going to do this for me because you, somewhere in that corpse, loved me once upon a time. Didn't you?"
"....."
"I remember. I thought of you every minute in that fucking tomb. There was not a moment that I was not encouraged to survive because of you."
"I did love you. I do love you."
"I know you do, sweet, sweet thing. You were always, and will always be, my favorite. Till the end."
"... Will this be the end?"
"Yes."
"Will I see you again?"
Blood splashed. A riot of red against the walls. It pooled so darkly at the tiled floor. Bones clattered in a wet slump inside a saggy carapace.
"No."