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‘You’re going to do something stupid,’ I said. ‘I know you. I can tell.’ He brushed hair from his eyes. ‘That makes two of us, then. What’s your daft plan?’ ‘The usual. I was hoping to talk to it and calm it down. Yours?’ ‘Thought I’d slow it up by cutting off its legs.’ I grinned at him. ‘We’re so similar.’
He will go into the dark. The second: He will sacrifice his life for you.
AHHHHHHH
I wasn’t especially sickly, or a lovelorn boy, so I frankly wasn’t La Belle Dame’s target audience, but even so I felt the tug of longing as I looked into those fathomless dark eyes. What was it that made me yearn to walk across? What was it that made me want to give myself to her? It wasn’t just that she was exquisite. Sure, you had the gently smiling mouth, the soft full lips, the set-square straightness of that lovely nose.
Bi panic?
‘Why do you think La Belle Dame tried her luck with you last night? You’re not a boy.’
BIIIIII
The goggles that Kipps wore, which allowed him to see ghosts despite his advanced age of twenty-two, were an Orpheus Society creation.
I'm of advanced age in this world?! :(
‘Funnily enough, Lockwood isn’t actually my type.’
He isn't? 😏
In my embarrassment, I’m not sure quite what my expression was right then, though I doubt the eerie red glow in the room made it massively attractive.
I'll say it again... BI PANIC
‘Good God, you don’t mean George?’ Holly laughed again; her eyes sparkled as she glanced at me sidelong. ‘You must know there are other possibilities in this world.’
Please don't mean Kipps...
