( enfys can't picture the rest of this house, but it's easy and immediate to picture where cerys is - in gareth's house, the one he actually built, the one where they still live and she doesn't, any more. and hasn't, not for years.
the space around them stutters like a bad television signal. gareth stands up, but he looks confused, too, and enfys' mind doesn't give him an opportunity to voice it. she wishes that it took longer - she wishes that she could have believed in it more, that it would be harder than this to remind her of what's true, but that's the thing, isn't it. if it were harder to walk away from, she wouldn't have walked away from it, would she? bucky isn't whoever they imagined was taking care of cerys bringing her back, because gareth doesn't need someone else to bring cerys back to him. he's with her.
he's not here. he's never been here.
enfys' lips twist in an awful, weary smile. there are teeth in it. it looks more like she should, and there's something about that better left unexamined. )
Yeah,
( quietly, the shelves crumbling behind her, fire from the hearth licking up the walls as they come down. )
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the space around them stutters like a bad television signal. gareth stands up, but he looks confused, too, and enfys' mind doesn't give him an opportunity to voice it. she wishes that it took longer - she wishes that she could have believed in it more, that it would be harder than this to remind her of what's true, but that's the thing, isn't it. if it were harder to walk away from, she wouldn't have walked away from it, would she? bucky isn't whoever they imagined was taking care of cerys bringing her back, because gareth doesn't need someone else to bring cerys back to him. he's with her.
he's not here. he's never been here.
enfys' lips twist in an awful, weary smile. there are teeth in it. it looks more like she should, and there's something about that better left unexamined. )
Yeah,
( quietly, the shelves crumbling behind her, fire from the hearth licking up the walls as they come down. )
I know.