What is a victim of a vampire's appetite if not a human on a bad day?
Armand is aware of the ways Daniel could dissect this moment, any moment, in the way he is aware of gravity, of the sky above them. It is simply a constant. Daniel chooses not to and Armand nods once at the words he says instead, acknowledgment. They can watch together as the man throws on a jacket, heads for the elevator, slips down the spine of the building.
The mother with her child does not answer his call, preoccupied with her own ill-feeling, her awful sense of responsibility. The man, enraged with his woman and himself, does not listen for the quiet being promised. Armand doesn't offer it to them.
Out the front doors of the building, the man turns a corner. The bodega for smokes, he is thinking. Then, Daniel will probably be able to tell, secondhand, the way he changes his mind: no, let's go for a walk.
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Armand is aware of the ways Daniel could dissect this moment, any moment, in the way he is aware of gravity, of the sky above them. It is simply a constant. Daniel chooses not to and Armand nods once at the words he says instead, acknowledgment. They can watch together as the man throws on a jacket, heads for the elevator, slips down the spine of the building.
The mother with her child does not answer his call, preoccupied with her own ill-feeling, her awful sense of responsibility. The man, enraged with his woman and himself, does not listen for the quiet being promised. Armand doesn't offer it to them.
Out the front doors of the building, the man turns a corner. The bodega for smokes, he is thinking. Then, Daniel will probably be able to tell, secondhand, the way he changes his mind: no, let's go for a walk.
"Shall we?" says Armand.