@mxdam said :
' get on your knees. '
‘ no, no, i own you. ’
it’s not a statement, not a command, nothing more than a faint affirmation, spoken to nobody but herself. tone hovering thick, infantile, like an adult speaking to a child. she holds an image in her mind, of a day much like this, a description on a page - the click-clack of typewriter keys spelling out sharp cheekbones, barren words, something inaccessible, something freudian, something that holds itself much like the figure before her now. ( joan hill wonders, not for the first time today, if perhaps the pills she took earlier are coming on a bit stronger than expected. )
she’s having difficulty articulating herself, forming words, but that can be accounted for, qualified. so, so, unlike the thing here, speaking to her. like a human, like a mirage, like something to be trusted. she glares at it, stiffens, but cannot stop her knees from wobbling, shivering under a dark, sterile gaze. cannot stifle the hallucinatory effect of those words, the idea of what it would feel like, knees against the ground.
‘ who are you? ’ margarethe? who are you, margarethe?