They stood silent as death, enduring the yawning emptiness of the VOID as it expanded without end, branching endless, nameless paths into the unknown. They waded the lapping tides as they walked, treading water, noting the presence of white twine bound tightly about their necks in knots neither could remove. *KINDNESS turned to regard his friend quietly, before he offered him his hand.
They were two lonely creatures, cursed, set adrift in a sea of madness.
✡☜💧📪
[YES,]
He replied in the static laden warble they shared, and took his duplicate’s hand (damaged in the same ways/ marred with PRIDE) into his own.
Kawah Putih lake (7.10° S 107.24° E) is one of the two craters which make up Mount Patuha, an andesitic stratovolcano (a “composite” volcano). Mt Patuha is one of numerous volcanoes in Java. Kawah Putih crater lake itself represents a relatively stable volcanic system with no records of significant activity since around 1600. (source)
He smiles, but the gesture is offered to the rippling depths of his tea cup. Unseen, reflected back through the amber liquid which frothed with every sip. Their conversations were becoming heavier.
The AIR was heavier–
* “–Your ‘House guest’ told me something
very concerning, my friend. “
The statement struck him with a great deal of surprise—a reaction that shone through in his expression and the slow drip of a viscous substance down his temple. Oh, he could imagine the lies that AWFUL FLOWER could tell, but what truths, too!
“OH?”
🕈☟✌❄ 👎✋👎📬📬📬 🕈☟✌❄ 👎✋👎 ☟☜ 💧✌✡✍ WHAT DID… WHAT DID HE SAY?
W. D. GASTER 