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roesslyngTitle: Don't come to me with the entire truth
Fandom: Stand Still Stay Silent
Characters: Ensi & Veeti
Rating: 0+ ish
Length: ~270
Summary: Sometimes, you don't want to understand, because understanding would be too unnerving.
Other: Experimental format. I'm channelling Cormac McCarthy again. Prompt was Ensi & Veeti - "Why can't you follow me (in my dream)?" [Original post]
Don't come to me with the entire truth
Follow me, she said.
Where?
The place you go when you wake up in your sleep. The place you go with the water and the forest and the boards leading nowhere.
You aren't making sense.
YOU aren't making sense.
No, you.
No, you!
Come on, he said, and sighed. Just tell me what you mean. It can't be that hard.
I don't have to! You know what I mean! Just do it. Follow me.
You weren't there, she said.
I don't know what you're talking about, he said.
Liar! You do!
Let go of me. Come on, stop it -
No! Only if you stop lying.
I'm not lying, okay? Now, stop, you're being weird.
No, you.
No y - oh, for fuck's sake, don't start this again.
DAD, VEETI SAID -
Shhhh!
Mmph!
You weren't there again, she said.
I don't know what you're talking about, he said.
Maybe you're just dumb.
Maybe you're just weird. Or having weird dreams.
It's a dream, she said. But it's also real. You wake up. And then you wake up again. And that's how you get there.
Wait, he said.
What?
Is this one of those things?
What things?
Like the... things. Like the things you can see that I can't. Those things.
You just aren't looking right.
I don't think that's it.
Yes it is! You're just not doing it right! And you aren't doing this right either!
I - come on, stop it. Don't look at me like that. Maybe you're just -
Shut up.
Okay.
...Okay.
Fine.
Veeti?
What?
Try again.
...All right. I'll try.
Fandom: Stand Still Stay Silent
Characters: Ensi & Veeti
Rating: 0+ ish
Length: ~270
Summary: Sometimes, you don't want to understand, because understanding would be too unnerving.
Other: Experimental format. I'm channelling Cormac McCarthy again. Prompt was Ensi & Veeti - "Why can't you follow me (in my dream)?" [Original post]
Don't come to me with the entire truth
Follow me, she said.
Where?
The place you go when you wake up in your sleep. The place you go with the water and the forest and the boards leading nowhere.
You aren't making sense.
YOU aren't making sense.
No, you.
No, you!
Come on, he said, and sighed. Just tell me what you mean. It can't be that hard.
I don't have to! You know what I mean! Just do it. Follow me.
You weren't there, she said.
I don't know what you're talking about, he said.
Liar! You do!
Let go of me. Come on, stop it -
No! Only if you stop lying.
I'm not lying, okay? Now, stop, you're being weird.
No, you.
No y - oh, for fuck's sake, don't start this again.
DAD, VEETI SAID -
Shhhh!
Mmph!
You weren't there again, she said.
I don't know what you're talking about, he said.
Maybe you're just dumb.
Maybe you're just weird. Or having weird dreams.
It's a dream, she said. But it's also real. You wake up. And then you wake up again. And that's how you get there.
Wait, he said.
What?
Is this one of those things?
What things?
Like the... things. Like the things you can see that I can't. Those things.
You just aren't looking right.
I don't think that's it.
Yes it is! You're just not doing it right! And you aren't doing this right either!
I - come on, stop it. Don't look at me like that. Maybe you're just -
Shut up.
Okay.
...Okay.
Fine.
Veeti?
What?
Try again.
...All right. I'll try.
