Random Plots and Places 9: What a crazy, random happenstance!

[happyturtle]

House in the Countryside

Wes is pulled down by the Mother, and as much as he might want to shrug her off, he's still young enough to be particularly susceptible to being mothered.

"The future is not fixed. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." Wes retorts. But then when Fire comes into view, he catches himself staring again. Being in the same room with two male lovers is a fascinating experience for Wes: terrifying and thrilling. As a closeted 16 year old in a world where male homosexuality is so rare, he often feels that particular flavour of deep despair that is peculiar to adolescence. That deep desire to be loved and wanted and the overwhelming terror that it will never happen. Simply to see a male couple is wonderful and validating. But in this case, one of them is naked, the other topless, and both so masculine and virile. It doesn't even matter to him anymore that Vigil has just been casually talking about the destruction of the world. His attention has been utterly diverted from that topic.