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1800 pages, Webnovel
albarino's fingers slowly crept across the table, his fingertips pressing against herstal's knuckles lightly.
“this is the relationship between us.”
he whispered. “that's it?” herstal didn't hide his disdainful laugh. “singing songs no one understands, making puppets dance to a rhythm they've set for themselves.”
“it's never completely without understanding. isn't the key point that someone else thinks the song is great too?”
“but in reality, these are two separate stars which cannot be distinguished from each other because they are too close, forming a binary star system.” his voice was light and slow, as if he were thoughtful. “two stars, orbiting around the same center of mass on their own separate orbits. for humans, they look so bright only because we combine their light together.”
“albarino.” herstal interrupted lightly. he had already understood, yet because of that he also wanted to sigh. “i am starting to get tired of your innumerable metaphors.”
albarino wasn’t looking at the stars any more, turning his head to look at herstal; his gaze quiet, dark, unpredictable.
“no,” he smiled, saying that word as if it were a prophecy. “i know you won’t.”
“If I don’t kill you now, I will fall in love with you eventually.”
"I will write poetry with my blood, I will write poetry with the juice of my eyeballs, with the marrow of my bones and saliva, and I will bite it letter by letter into your body."