Daniel steers his attention off a glance to the book, but Armand lifts it, drawing focus. "You quoted Rumi," he says. "Who also once said, 'I have never become less from dying'."
Optimistic. Romantic. Religious, first and foremost, but these words exist beyond their context, a fragment of a poem penned quickly into the acknowledgments of a book about queer vampires and their violences.
Cute, also.
And he begins to walk, a pivot that invites Daniel to stay in step.
no subject
To the tune of: maybe.
Daniel steers his attention off a glance to the book, but Armand lifts it, drawing focus. "You quoted Rumi," he says. "Who also once said, 'I have never become less from dying'."
Optimistic. Romantic. Religious, first and foremost, but these words exist beyond their context, a fragment of a poem penned quickly into the acknowledgments of a book about queer vampires and their violences.
Cute, also.
And he begins to walk, a pivot that invites Daniel to stay in step.