Drabble: Gray - a little side trip

[serai]

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Am smoking and stewing, and this popped out. Hiccups, maybe?

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Gray


In a different world, he does not mock her, but sees her with compassion, and is kind. In a different world, he does not claim to know her, but asks after her health, pleased to see her on his friend’s arm. In a different world, she is not a thing to be played with.

But she does not live in a different world. She lives in this one, and he sees not a woman but a toy, and Ethan does not defend her. She looks at his rose-petal skin and bored, catlike eyes, and knows the end will come soon.

Comments

[aliensouldream.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ooh. Can this please be a prologue? :-)