anglophone: (004 | let gravity win)
alec ([personal profile] anglophone) wrote in [community profile] wellcome 2024-05-22 02:13 pm (UTC)

[ Alec plunges through the door, acquiring a layer of sticky coating as soon as he passes from one room to the other, flailing his arms as he tumbles forward into the glitter. He halfway disappears into a shimmering drift of the stuff and comes up sputtering and spitting, wiping at his mouth with an equally sticky sleeve to smear the offending particles around.

He has no idea how he managed to trip over a doorframe, but it is the kind of thing that happens to him from time to time. He's never really that great at knowing exactly where his feet are if he's not paying attention. ]


Fuck. [ Muttered to the empty room as he shakes out his blistered hand, face crinkled in annoyance. ] Ugh.

[ There's nothing for it but standing up, he guesses. So he does, blinking rapidly, a snowfall of yet more glitter dislodged from his eyelashes to sparkle in his field of vision.

He -

He's alone. Which isn't surprising, on account of no one else being here, but it makes him frown anyway, a rare unobserved expression. He glances over his shoulder with glossy, unfocused confusion, feeling -

Alec touches the back of his neck, thoughtlessly, fingers brushing his rumpled collar. ]

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