I love this chapter a lot! The contrasts are made all that much stronger by the humourous image of their dressing up to steal chocolate. Although it's really painful what connotations the idea evokes as soon as they start thinking more closely. And the power normal things like books and chocolate have...
“We could just go over there and ask.” He shrugs again. “What can they do?” He’s painfully aware he’s trying to convince himself. Erik’s expression is almost comical; he blinks at him as though unable to comprehend what he’s hearing. It was one possibility he clearly hasn’t considered
Terribly plausible; it really would be the last thing to occur to you after years of stealing.
It's also sweet to see them get closer. Erik's almost naive attitude there, when he is so jaded with everything else, breaks my heart.
But sometimes, when the staff are talking about sending them away again, and the world opens up like an endless void they’re about to topple into, Charles wanted to be somewhere (anywhere, anywhere at all but not there) that he understood.
This inability to think of a clear future and have hopes for it is one of the strongest feelings in all of Past Tense where every thought is necessarily followed by one that points backwards (starting with the title). And your writing gets ever more brilliant.
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Date: 2008-01-31 08:59 am (UTC)And the power normal things like books and chocolate have...
“We could just go over there and ask.” He shrugs again. “What can they do?” He’s painfully aware he’s trying to convince himself.
Erik’s expression is almost comical; he blinks at him as though unable to comprehend what he’s hearing. It was one possibility he clearly hasn’t considered
Terribly plausible; it really would be the last thing to occur to you after years of stealing.
It's also sweet to see them get closer. Erik's almost naive attitude there, when he is so jaded with everything else, breaks my heart.
But sometimes, when the staff are talking about sending them away again, and the world opens up like an endless void they’re about to topple into, Charles wanted to be somewhere (anywhere, anywhere at all but not there) that he understood.
This inability to think of a clear future and have hopes for it is one of the strongest feelings in all of Past Tense where every thought is necessarily followed by one that points backwards (starting with the title).
And your writing gets ever more brilliant.