Second Sight [Ensi & Veeti]

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Title: Second Sight
Fandom: Stand Still Stay Silent
Characters/Pairing: Ensi Hotakainen & Veeti Hollola
Rating: 0+
Length: 46 lines poetry
Summary: This isn't what he imagined looking after his little cousin would be like.
Other: Prompt was Ensi & Veeti - the perils of babysitting the world's first mage. [Original post]
*Tumblr user drepedetihjel did a lovely sketch inspired by this poem and you can view it over here!



Second Sight

You have a face too sharp
too cold
too thin
for a kid your age
with eyes that see
right through me,
strip me down to the bone.
It's dangerous out here
on the lakeshore
so be careful
don't get out of my sight
I say, and then you slip off
as soon as I take my eyes from you.
You're as quiet as shadows
and I don't dare call
your name like I might have
in the days you never knew.
It aches to think about it
and I wish I could be
just a kid yelling after his cousin
hollering down the street
for you to come home.
You can't do that here
not any more
that's how it is.
If I don't find you
your parents and mine –
well, okay
they won't kill me
but I'd never forgive myself.
So I search, quiet as a rabbit
wide-eyed, more scared
with every second
because we don't know what's out here
and that's the worst of it.
And when I find you
you're staring at something
peering with tilted head
curious eyes gleaming.
I take a good long look
squint through the trees, trying to see
and then I realize
as you take a step forward
that there isn't anything there
nothing at all
not for my eyes to see.