felined
The room elapsed and time condensed into a dying thing
It had never been so beautiful
Sitting on the shelf like something great but forgotten
It kissed the air with its fragrant dust and smiled at the end of the world
It echoed through the hearts of the men that loved it
They broke through the chains with a force, the likes of which could only be found in angry elephants and dying rattlesnakes. They charged through the walls and into our hearts. Forever.
She stood with the world in her eyes and those ruby irises on atlas as he slowly inclined forward. Kneeling. She did not say a word to him but simply smiled, face shifting into a calm smile as atlas shrugged and the world went teetering away from him.