This is lovely. You get a beautiful and meaningful character/relationship study out of a broken fingernail, and it works. This is them, just perfectly, no matter how much we'd love to see them kiss passionately and leap into bed:
And here’s the thing: she knows that they can’t – that it’s not even an option, that she shouldn’t even think about it. And she doesn’t, most of the time.
Part of the time.
She’s traveled to the farthest reaches of space – seen cats in wimples and a dog who got her name instead and a man eaten up inside by the oldest evil there is, wearing Satan on his face like tribal markings – and here, here’s what’s impossible.
Yes. That's the way they are - so close, yet so very far from the kind of conventional physical intimacy we expect from a relationship. Yet they're intimate in every other way that counts, and in many ways far more intimate than most couples who are at it like rabbits.
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Date: 2008-02-08 11:17 pm (UTC)And here’s the thing: she knows that they can’t – that it’s not even an option, that she shouldn’t even think about it. And she doesn’t, most of the time.
Part of the time.
She’s traveled to the farthest reaches of space – seen cats in wimples and a dog who got her name instead and a man eaten up inside by the oldest evil there is, wearing Satan on his face like tribal markings – and here, here’s what’s impossible.
Yes. That's the way they are - so close, yet so very far from the kind of conventional physical intimacy we expect from a relationship. Yet they're intimate in every other way that counts, and in many ways far more intimate than most couples who are at it like rabbits.
Lovely work :)