[The theatre is empty. Who wants to visit a place where death hit twice?
It's a fact Camille is counting on as she runs her fingers over the broken planks of the stage. There — a sturdy splinter. Three inches long with an unforgiving point, sturdy base.
She pries it loose and scoots to the edge of the stage, breathing thin. She pulls her sleeve back and finds a word to trace. Just trace. It's fine to follow the lines.
Babydoll. Cherry. Ripe. Fix. Senseless and feminine picks. Or there's the longer and crueler ones, like duplicitous, or wicked. More fitting words for the situation are carved in less accessible places. She shouldn't remove her jeans to rewrite wretched along the back of her thigh, and she'd need a mirror for useless, which curved under her left shoulder blade.
Worrisome. That works. Along the forearm, easy to see and cover. Smaller text swarms it on every side, coming up to the wrist, but that one had been cut in when she had more space to spare.
Camille is dragging the splinter along the second R when the door opens.]
WEEK 1: Sunday ((cw for self harm))
It's a fact Camille is counting on as she runs her fingers over the broken planks of the stage. There — a sturdy splinter. Three inches long with an unforgiving point, sturdy base.
She pries it loose and scoots to the edge of the stage, breathing thin. She pulls her sleeve back and finds a word to trace. Just trace. It's fine to follow the lines.
Babydoll. Cherry. Ripe. Fix. Senseless and feminine picks. Or there's the longer and crueler ones, like duplicitous, or wicked. More fitting words for the situation are carved in less accessible places. She shouldn't remove her jeans to rewrite wretched along the back of her thigh, and she'd need a mirror for useless, which curved under her left shoulder blade.
Worrisome. That works. Along the forearm, easy to see and cover. Smaller text swarms it on every side, coming up to the wrist, but that one had been cut in when she had more space to spare.
Camille is dragging the splinter along the second R when the door opens.]