Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Bodily Heteronomy
by EleenaDume
I tried to imagine what it felt like to be holding something with those ridiculously small hands of yours, with your perfectly slim fingers and the total lack of muscles that were used to lifting nothing heavier than a bone or a pen on a good day. Thanks to your fucked up temporal lobe, I was too far down in the well to get full control of your body. But I only needed control of your hands, after all. Not even for long! Just long enough to bring the spoon to your mouth at least once. It sounded easy enough. Surely, I should be able to do that.…nothing happened. Nothing at all. You just sat there, completely unmoved, like I hadn’t just spent five minutes trying to hold hands with you. Damn it, Harrow, work with me here.——Or: Gideon tries to help Harrow eat from the bottom of the well, because someone has to.