Blood in the Thread
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"English, Colin," Nate says, because he is a horrible monstrous spoilsport and possibly because he doesn't take kindly to being woken up. Colin's hands still in mid-air, in the middle of describing an arc like the bastard child of an aleph and the infinity sign. "It's late."
"Early," Colin corrects him, ruining the frozen shape with a sharp, cheerful correction, which boils down to pointing. Putting it like that would be inelegant, though.
"I just woke up," says Nate. "You woke me up. Against my will," he adds. Colin can barely see the chemical burns on his hands as he hauls himself upright, night vision or no. "Please find it in yourself to be more comprehensible."
Colin pauses and looks to an imaginary crowd by the morning-cast blue wall. For guidance, obviously. He isn't insane; they are by no means there. "We need a name," he explains.
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- Part 1 of Blood in the Thread
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He sighs, just a little, as punctuation. Colin's not deluded, he doesn't think his not-actually-on-his-level peer group is paying attention out of anything other than morbid fascination (morbid half-interest) and boredom, but he'll win them over. At very least, he can enjoy putting on the show, in the interim.
He is, after all, first and foremost a storyteller. (A young Colin acquires an audience and isn't entirely certain what to do with it.)
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- Part 2 of Blood in the Thread
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On either side of a decade and a song, two very different facets of Mr. Meloy.
(Or: two times when it seemed like a good idea to go around singing and Colin completely failed to notice any possible parallels.)
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- Part 3 of Blood in the Thread
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