“time, do you know what you are?”

“no, but please do enlighten me.” he said as his eyes lit up and he crossed his legs.
he placed his left hand upon his chin and he slowly leant in, quite obviously amused by all of this.

“you’re a thorny piece of thread,” she professed.

“hmm?” he replied

“yes! you rid people of their very essence, but you don’t do it immediately, oh no, that would be too generous of you. instead, you extract things bit by bit. slowly, you pull, making sure not to leave without a little subtle scarring.”

“oh?”

“and i’m a hundred and ten percent sure you know.”

“what does all this have to do with me, though?”

“don’t you care?” she gasped. “what does all this have to do with me?” the woman mimicked. “you stupid little f-ck.”

“your first mistake was thinking that i did care in the first place.”

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