[ katherine likes to believe herself to be a decisive person. when she wants something, she gets it. when she wants to avoid something, it never gets close to capturing her. but the line she toes with stefan is one that she knows she's revisiting, having explored it in 1864 and supposedly learned her lesson. ]
[ avoiding him ever since the dreams in wonderland had turned into nightmares had been the wisest choice at the time; she's been successful in staying far from him, pushing him from her mind as she'd succeeded in doing for centuries. she's changed her routine, taking her time to read silly novels in the tea room on the eight floor instead of any of the lower ones. she takes walks in the woods instead of in the gardens, and even goes to the beach despite disliking the smell of the salty water. her mind's never far from lingering on that little girl scrunching her nose and looking at her as though she didn't recognise her. ]
[ she knows stefan is far from the stefan who had been in her dream, but even katherine has her moments of not being strong enough to look someone in the eye. ]
[ space is an adventure she doesn't quite mind, enjoying the fashion and the flying cars, but she finds that she wishes to spend it with someone, and often that person is the very one she wishes to avoid. she thinks to find him, perhaps in a boring bookstore or a place that sells hair gel, but she avoids those stores as much as she can. it's within one decisive moment she uses her space-phone, and decides, then and there, not to phone him, but text — it's so much safer and easier to control if she doesn't let him hear her voice. ]
TEXT | during the space event.
[ avoiding him ever since the dreams in wonderland had turned into nightmares had been the wisest choice at the time; she's been successful in staying far from him, pushing him from her mind as she'd succeeded in doing for centuries. she's changed her routine, taking her time to read silly novels in the tea room on the eight floor instead of any of the lower ones. she takes walks in the woods instead of in the gardens, and even goes to the beach despite disliking the smell of the salty water. her mind's never far from lingering on that little girl scrunching her nose and looking at her as though she didn't recognise her. ]
[ she knows stefan is far from the stefan who had been in her dream, but even katherine has her moments of not being strong enough to look someone in the eye. ]
[ space is an adventure she doesn't quite mind, enjoying the fashion and the flying cars, but she finds that she wishes to spend it with someone, and often that person is the very one she wishes to avoid. she thinks to find him, perhaps in a boring bookstore or a place that sells hair gel, but she avoids those stores as much as she can. it's within one decisive moment she uses her space-phone, and decides, then and there, not to phone him, but text — it's so much safer and easier to control if she doesn't let him hear her voice. ]
I'm bored.