 12. You must include a palindrome of some kind in your post. ½ of Lauralie | Koala | The being in Ern's pocket | Baby Smurf | Prouf member of The Flock
Amrita's mannerisms were not entirely different, although she was now significantly more nervous than they were at any point of their relationship before this. Her hands flitted from tugging at her hair, to rubbing absently at the mug, to fidgeting with the hem of her blouse. Her eyes flitted from Mo to Jasmine to her mug to her hands and back.
She wished that he would just say something, that he would say anything, so she would know how to act.
Are we not drawn onward to new era? rang through her head, bouncing against the walls of her skull and leaving echos. The longest palindrome she knew. The only palindrome other than racecar that had stuck itself in her head, and it was because he had told it to her.
"You were supposed to go your whole life not knowing," she said, barely even waiting for him to finish his sentence. "I was fine. I -- I had it handled. She has a dad in her life. You don't have to be here. I'm not making you stay. I never asked you to parent her."
Her eyes burned with tears. "I loved you. Sometimes I think I'm better, and then it comes back like a tsunami. So I write to cope, and then I put them away, thinking maybe someday I'll read them again and laugh. Someday, when Jasmine is bigger, and when I don't wonder every day how I'm going to make it another day."
She was still for a long time after that, looking pensively at her mug before finding her voice once more. "If you want to forget, I know people who can help," she said. "Obliviators. You can forget Jasmine, you can forget Usha and you can forget me."
Merlin knew she would want to. |