Substantive

 

She tied her black and white oxford shoes tightly to her feet, as if they kept her grounded on terra; her desire to take flight was forceful but she had work to do. Her black V neck T-shirt tucked haphazardly in her pants the colour of ivy shaded by trees at dusk. She walked forward with what looked like purpose and ease, her shoulders back and seeming not to move as she glided through the door way, a drop of water hung on to the base of her naked neck. 

The door was weighty red oak with carved noble stags standing upon the bucks of antelope, mountain goats, and hares, it stood wide open. The room smelled of a musk that had permeated the walls and someone had perversely cleaned it to try and remove the oder to no avail. In front of her were two men, the one facing her had stringy hair that was an unnatural black ink shade and looked as if it had leaked. His thin lips rouged grotesquely, his pocked face smoothly shaven shaded by fake eyelashes that looked like tarantulas has crawled above his beady eyes. He looked to be stopped in mid sentence during a congenially chat with the other man whose back was to her. What she could see of the other man was the back of his head, it was groomed short and tightly, his legs crossed and adorned with fish net hose that crisscrossed his hairy legs. They couldn't see her as she looked around the room. On a shelf to the left was a row of books of blue the colour of the sky on a clear cold dry afternoon with one dash of bright red near the top and one near the bottom embossed with gold lettering and two circles in the middle, the book second from the left one is up side down. On the desk in front of the man with inky hair is a 5 petal white rose in a cranberry glass vase. 

She breathes her words for them to hear,

Chaos come

it's just begun

the scare is in the air

with a fright you thought delight

the quiet comes undone

with a light shined down on thee

a bargain all can see

that stage you walk with two faced lies 

poisoned plunder

seeps deep in to your mind

 

Be still and listen

One day I will tell you a story

She took a deep breath in and removed her self from the situation.