swanmaiden asked:
What are your favourite scents, flowers, trees, and birds? What do you do at school during your free-time (or if you don't work, like me, who would much rather sneak books from the library under my jumper)? If you could make a constellation appear in the sky, what would it be?
I like the smell of grass, and the world when it’s just rained and the way fresh linen makes my lungs feel as though they’ve just been cleanly washed and rinsed. Books make my face split into garish smiles. Orchids, are my favourite flower, they are elegant and beautiful, almost regal like royalty. Sometimes when we are driving by, I see a Weeping Willow and it feels as though every particle inside of my yearns to be near it, to bury myself in the soul underneath its trunk and to be the life that nourishes it. Weeping Willows remind me of rivers suspended in the sky. We talk about what the human soul is made of, if anyone can be born evil, we talk about which Harry Potter character we’d like to be, sometimes we play chess, ‘does anyone want that goddamn last biscuit? I’m on a diet but…’ (Somebody is always on a diet.)
Dearest Josephine, I would steal the stars. If I could make a constellation, I would keep it in my pockets. I am a crow, delighted by the beauty of the things we cannot have. The stars, the moon, I want them on my mantelpiece, or inside of me.
