11-25-2017, 10:22 PM
The responses were a smattering of well-timed insertions that failed to be interruptions. She cut herself off and he finished the sentence with unerring, even spooky levels of completion.
So it took a miracle or two for you to call, huh?
"You can't talk miracles with someone who wants to sleep"
I haven't seen you since I was Four--
"--Four and a Half--"
Start a family in the middle of your Choir'ing if it was going to--
"I fell in love. That's all Faith strives to fight for. To be."
There is silence on his end when she needs it. When it's asked for even without being asked for. She is looking out on the yard and the road and taking in everything and by some miracle ( Perhaps literally, working the other end of the line to know the timing needed to insert his words without them being overstepping or interrupting) he remains present in the conversation when she is willing to return.
Except with the last question:
Are you in Denver?
There is a clearing of the throat and a deep inhale.
"Not yet."
So it took a miracle or two for you to call, huh?
"You can't talk miracles with someone who wants to sleep"
I haven't seen you since I was Four--
"--Four and a Half--"
Start a family in the middle of your Choir'ing if it was going to--
"I fell in love. That's all Faith strives to fight for. To be."
There is silence on his end when she needs it. When it's asked for even without being asked for. She is looking out on the yard and the road and taking in everything and by some miracle ( Perhaps literally, working the other end of the line to know the timing needed to insert his words without them being overstepping or interrupting) he remains present in the conversation when she is willing to return.
Except with the last question:
Are you in Denver?
There is a clearing of the throat and a deep inhale.
"Not yet."