( he doesn't know what striking a third match will do, what it might show him. if the first had shown him a thing and the second had shown him a person, would the third combine them? show him a place?
or just twist everything on its head and make everything that he'd seen drenched in red and pain? it's a chance he's not sure he wants to take. )
Come on, we'll go somewhere else. ( he takes a hand out of his pocket, away from the match and curls it around her arm, not pulling but trying to encourage her to move with him. ) We don't need those matches.
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( he doesn't know what striking a third match will do, what it might show him. if the first had shown him a thing and the second had shown him a person, would the third combine them? show him a place?
or just twist everything on its head and make everything that he'd seen drenched in red and pain? it's a chance he's not sure he wants to take. )
Come on, we'll go somewhere else. ( he takes a hand out of his pocket, away from the match and curls it around her arm, not pulling but trying to encourage her to move with him. ) We don't need those matches.