The end of the belt arcs out towards Brian, seeming for a moment almost to float in the air between the two, a tether, a lifeline, a hope.
endings are heartless
It happens blindingly fast: the walls snap shut like the teeth of a bear trap on Brian's outstretched hand, splintering every bone in it like a handful of twigs, and spring open again too fast for the eye to follow. The color that flashes in bursts behind your eyes The severed end of the belt falls to the floor at Brian's feet, and starts to fade into it. The remaining half trails limply from Johnny's hand. behind the pain Blood is dripping -- no, blood is running from Brian's mangled fingers, broken bones protruding through the flesh. Red drops fall toward the swirling dark maelstrom of the floor, and vanish into it as though into liquid. just before you die
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Date: 2007-01-21 12:00 am (UTC)endings are heartless
It happens blindingly fast: the walls snap shut like the teeth of a bear trap on Brian's outstretched hand, splintering every bone in it like a handful of twigs, and spring open again too fast for the eye to follow.
The color that flashes in bursts behind your eyes
The severed end of the belt falls to the floor at Brian's feet, and starts to fade into it. The remaining half trails limply from Johnny's hand.
behind the pain
Blood is dripping -- no, blood is running from Brian's mangled fingers, broken bones protruding through the flesh. Red drops fall toward the swirling dark maelstrom of the floor, and vanish into it as though into liquid.
just before you die