dapurinthos:

Basira closed her eyes and did not consider any similarities between this hypothetical person and Jonathan Sims.

The silence sat between them, grew from embryo to adulthood, probably encountered something terrible and with too many eyes or limbs or worms, and died a disgusting death in the manner of any previous employee of the Magnus Institute.

‘Do you want,’ she kept from gritting her teeth, ‘… to talk about it?”

Jon pines, Basira watches and wishes he wasn’t doing it in front of her. (JonElias Week 2023, day 7: Missed Connection)