9 Works by haldern
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"Look at them." Spilled wine slipping through the gravel, birds circling each other in flight, the twitching of fingers. "Dancing or fighting. What do you make of them?"
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"He feels as though there is nowhere and everywhere left in the world for them to go, and he is excited and terrified all at once as the Overground carries them headlong into stasis, her hand in his."
leon, ada, and a night in london.
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"He'd challenge you, press himself against the knife's edge and call your bluff. You wouldn't do it, couldn't do it, but."
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leon in the wake of ada's absence.
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"Leon's hands and mouth drift along her body, leaving marks of love every thirty paces, [...and] she is liquid beneath him, dripping with feeling, lying exposed in the remains of her melted armour."
ada's relationship with leon, in a daze of wanting and avoidance.
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"She kisses him, too, hands roaming the expanse of his back, and for a moment, he lets himself believe that her warm breaths against his lips are a sign of reciprocity."
leon's relationship with ada, in the haze of lust and cheap hotel sheets.
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"He is crucified by his memories.
He retraces the steps of an intricate dance made of twists and side-steps, of masked emotions and sharpened wits. A careful hand around her wrist and a blade hovering just before her throat. He could've killed her then, and yet—"
a study of leon in the aftermath of RE4R.
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"The marks on my neck and half-moons on your back serving as reminders that what we have is tangible, real, but not quite real enough."
morning-after reflections, through ada's eyes.
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"She wonders when their lives had ever become so intertwined. When, exactly, it was that she started to see him on every street corner, his afterimage manifesting in the form of blond-haired strangers. She supposes it's her karma."
or, ada tries to make sense of her connection to leon.