( it's blindingly transparent, without needing to take a looking glass to paul's intentions. a mouse doesn't need a wide open door to fit their way through — the only invitation muad'dib needs is the smallest crack, the faintest promise of warmth waiting for him, the tiniest hole. and alina — alina's riddled with enough cracks and ruptures, the walls she's built around herself paper-thin and prone to tearing, that it wouldn't take much to convince her to let him inside. let him stay in her safe burrow, and suffer through the winter with her.
she doesn't have the strength to turn him away, but she doesn't have the strength to bear letting him see her like this, either — some hollow shell of herself, losing pieces of alina starkov by the day. so: )
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she doesn't have the strength to turn him away, but she doesn't have the strength to bear letting him see her like this, either — some hollow shell of herself, losing pieces of alina starkov by the day. so: )
Did you look through it?