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    Patrick’s hands are deft and nimble, flicking through pages of stanzas, pausing on one before rejecting it. They’re as pale as the rest of him, fine-boned, and there’s something about the way he moves them that’s oddly captivating. Pete watches through half-lidded eyes. He’s so stuck on them he nearly misses the first streak of red they leave behind; he blinks, looks back, and there – a crimson trail cuts through the words he’d scribbled onto the back of a receipt -- cue all the love to leave my heart // it’s time for me to fall apart

    “Patrick,” he says, voice hoarse. Patrick glances up, first to Pete’s face, and then down to his own hands; his eyes widen. He lifts his hands into the air and inspects them. Blood glistens on his fingertips and begins to trickle down, thin streams of red down the sides of every finger. They trace bright lines across his palms. Pete’s breath is caught in his throat, a physical barrier, and he can’t breathe, he can’t speak. He can only stare.

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