The Ritual
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Read between July 21 - July 25, 2024
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They would be forced to stay here for a night because Phil was so fat his feet were ruined merely by walking outdoors.
Dara
Rip
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before they and Hutch fell to the usual banter, as if the three of them had been seeing each other every week for the last fifteen years.
Dara
"I love inside jokes. I'd love to be apart of one someday"
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‘Or we could feed you and your useless knee to him,
Dara
Dead lmao
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He had been so excited about hanging out with them all again and looked forward to it for the six months following Hutch’s wedding, when the idea was first mooted.
Dara
Omg :'( Poor fella
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Or did Phil know that Luke had slept with Michelle, a year before he met Phil?
Dara
The way i gasped
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Sixteen years ago, but he could still recall her hissing beneath him, like a cat, not to mention the way she rolled her eyes back until they were white when she came. Shamefully, after he ejaculated, he had not only struggled to find anything to like about her, but realized he actually disliked her.
Dara
Bruhh
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Luke. My name is Luke and I am on the floor. Of the house. The one we found in the black wood. His breathing slows down. He stops panting.
Dara
Wild and clever writing. I love the change of pov
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Hutch put the cigarette between his lips.
Dara
How many cigs did they even bring??
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‘The last thing this place feels is holy.’
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There were no predators they need be afraid of out here, he reminded himself.
Dara
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........?
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He seemed satisfied that there was no danger, which alarmed Luke,
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Dom came through the rent on his hands and knees.
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Tent* ?
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‘Can you get across that?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘For real?’ ‘Yes for fucking real.’ ‘OK then. Let’s do it.’
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‘I can’t go any further.’ Dom stared between his knees, at the ground he had slumped upon.
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When they found Phil hanging from a Scots pine, they didn’t linger.
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Don’t move. It’s the worst thing you can do with a head trauma.
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He licked the wet bark of a tree.
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Dom was no longer with him.
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In this place of his salvation, the air tasted unclean.
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He opened his wooden lips and exposed his gritty mouth to the taste of neglect:
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Shrieking, screaming voices, imitating the vocals in black metal music;
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"Oooohhhhh-wa-ah-ah-aaaghhh"
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His oafish noises were being underwritten by Loki’s booming baritone.
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"Hello darkness, my old friend"
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And why did they wear their shoes inside the house?
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Bad things didn’t happen around grandmothers.
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If only we could all stand up. All of us who have died unjustly for the Gods of the insane. There would be so many of us.
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They deserved to die. He wanted them dead.
Dara
How long is this going to TAKE
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I honestly same lol
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But he could not just go into a bedroom and stab a sleeping body; the thought made him feel sick and faint.
Dara
Here, give ME the knife.
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He ran at Fenris, his own knife at his side.
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...... You didnt grab the gun
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Luke went for the gun.
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God FINALLY
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Stopped. Turned around and went back for the gun that he had left on the grass.
Dara
WHATTTT
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Loki had known about this place; others might do too.
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Huh?
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‘You killed them amongst the stones,’ he whispered. ‘Yes, you showed me. Carried them out in wagons to die.’
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I'm going to need someone to explain what is going on
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‘I saw your old house. I was there. You used to string them up over a basin. You showed me. Did you suckle your God on blood?’
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He felt the head collapse to dust. Breathed some of it in, coughed, spat.
Dara
Oh but I’m sure if it was rolled into a cigarette, you’d be fine
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He briefly thought of putting the rifle barrel inside his mouth and then a big toe inside the trigger guard.
Dara
Relatable.
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He gaped, he pissed down his dirty legs.
Dara
How does he have so much piss
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His teeth oozed around the metal keyring like butter.
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D:
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He placed the knife on the top of the plastic dashboard,
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Hazard
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He depressed the clutch with the sole of a dirty bare foot.
Dara
It's a stick? Count me dead
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Something should be wrong with the engine. Nothing should go right for him. That was the way of things.
Dara
Lol my thoughts on a normal Tuesday
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He shut down the train of thought. And the engine cut out. Cold. He turned the key again. The engine rocked into life. Sputtered out again. Luke checked the fuel gauge; about one tenth of a tank. They’d drained it for their stupid pyres.
Dara
Oh ok so it's exactly what happened.
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Handbrake off. Clutch down, into first gear.
Dara
Literally I would be useless