3 Works by violentes
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It's a quiet act to move on.
She wills her palms to lay flat against the surface of the table, and her fingers not to tremble or twitch. She examines them closely. They're free of cuts, burns and bruises now, her nails are clean and neatly cut. For the first time, they aren't fumbling or clawing or begging or searching. For the first time, they aren't hurting. They're quiet.
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“But... why?” she asks, eyebrows drawn together, like she's really making an effort to justify this, which only further breaks his heart. “Aren't we safe here any longer?”
“We are,” Cal starts, glancing at his hands like they are holding on to the right words, “but we'll be even safer if we move.”
Kira slumps her shoulders and folds her gaze down to the flower-print wax cloth. Cal half expects some sort of protest, arguing, resentment – at the very least some tears. But all Kira eventually offers is a crestfallen; “I really liked it here.”
“Me too,” Cal murmurs. It doesn't escape him for one second how Kira is already referring to this place in past tense, and that's how easy it is then, he thinks bitterly, to overturn someone's life.
Or; Iceland gets colder, and Sarah reunites with her family.
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“It looks sad,” Kira says contemplatively as they stand on one of the lookout platforms built for tourists, because that's what they're pretending to be; tourists.
The brisk wind rips at his hair while Cal frowns at the glacier. Kira is right. The shapes are unsympathetic, the colors grim, and it looks very big, very terse and very lonely. He feels a twinge of dysphoria in his heart – maybe caused by their situation at large rather than the imminent view – standing on this lookout point trying to keep up an illusion that neither of them are strong enough to sustain and both of them can see through. But Kira puts her hand in the vacancy of his palm, and the way it fits there – like a consoling truth in the midst of the pretending – makes him feel better.
Or; Cal and Kira go to Iceland.