"If you don't see -" if Jude could not see the ways Kieran held his tongue every day, then Kieran didn't know what to tell him. His next sentence came with an expansive gesture of his hand, "You're the sun, alright? And I'm just - trying to fucking orbit you."

He had said too much. He wasn't sure it made sense, but it was too much. He picked Sandwich's cage back up and took the first step of the ladder up to the attic, with a helpless glance at Jude.

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