The stakes aren't always so high. Someone who would pay any price for a familiar face -- with a heart so willing, no risk would seem worth considering.
[ her plucking fingers cease their motion, laying flat down, slipping to the table when she lifts her mug again. ]
Or if it's someone they can't live without... but, the day that person vanishes would be so much more painful, wouldn't it?
[when, she says, like it's the most obvious and unchanging thing. the earth orbits the sun; the moon orbits the earth; the ones you love will be lost to you. ]
And worse than that, it's never promised that the person who wears their face is the one you remember, or the one that remembers you. That's the worst of all.
At least, [ added with the slightest shrug off her shoulders, raising the mug the rest of the way to her mouth, to scald the bile of her poison words from her own tongue, ] that's what I think.
the first time I wrote this I got halfway through with "fabulous" instead of "familiar"
[ her plucking fingers cease their motion, laying flat down, slipping to the table when she lifts her mug again. ]
Or if it's someone they can't live without... but, the day that person vanishes would be so much more painful, wouldn't it?
[ when, she says, like it's the most obvious and unchanging thing. the earth orbits the sun; the moon orbits the earth; the ones you love will be lost to you. ]
And worse than that, it's never promised that the person who wears their face is the one you remember, or the one that remembers you. That's the worst of all.
At least, [ added with the slightest shrug off her shoulders, raising the mug the rest of the way to her mouth, to scald the bile of her poison words from her own tongue, ] that's what I think.