the words fell from her lips like icy little blades designed to freeze and flay the very soul

i hope you die

she immediately wished she could pull them back

that she could send her tongue out like a lasso to latch onto them and swallow them to dissolve in the roiling acids that filled her belly as she saw them strike home with dealt precision

i am so sorry, i didn’t mean it

but they both knew part of her one hundred percent meant them even as the moment had passed into the uncomfortable land of bare naked truth

he shrugged as he plotted his escape and continued on as of he was still in one piece instead of the pieces that fell scattered across the floor