i've got some damn bad intentions - anyone

[Djinni]

djinni

“You miss her,” she says. It should be a question – she can’t read his mind – but it is a declaration. It does not explain everything (nothing ever can), but it feels as though she has finally found a large piece of puzzle she hadn’t even known she was solving.

“I miss my parents too, though they’re not so far away as the stars.” It might seem as though she adds this to show she empathizes with him, but it’s really only because she is thinking of them, and of her siblings, and how it has been more than a decade since she has seen them. She empathizes too, of course, but that she is less comfortable with, so she doesn’t accompany her words with a friendly touch to the shoulder or a hollow but comforting smile: she only looks out at the trees.

“Have you ever been there?” Djinni asks when her gaze makes its way back to his, “To the stars, I mean.”

all my fragile strength is gone