He would've laughed about Carrie-with-all-the-pig's-blood-and-the-prom-from-hell. He really would have. The Breakers liked that one (and the attendant remakes, naturally). They liked Star Wars too, for that matter. So there was no telling with that lot.
And he really would've laughed. He would have.
Except that she had started screaming and carrying on.
Now he closed the distance between them--it was only a stride or two. And now he was all but on top of her, gripping her shoulders, holding her (crushing her?) as much against himself as against the door itself. And now he leaned down to her ear and whispered, hissing and harsh:
"Do you think that I'd put you in a room on a hallway that anyone would use? Do you think for even one moment that I would keep you anywhere near the rest of them? Where, precisely, do you think you are in this place, this temple, this palace of infinite rooms?"
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Date: 2013-05-13 02:10 am (UTC)And he really would've laughed. He would have.
Except that she had started screaming and carrying on.
Now he closed the distance between them--it was only a stride or two. And now he was all but on top of her, gripping her shoulders, holding her (crushing her?) as much against himself as against the door itself. And now he leaned down to her ear and whispered, hissing and harsh:
"Do you think that I'd put you in a room on a hallway that anyone would use? Do you think for even one moment that I would keep you anywhere near the rest of them? Where, precisely, do you think you are in this place, this temple, this palace of infinite rooms?"