/ the latter option being like. he has a suspicion but if that was the case stanley would surely tell the truth to him wouldn't he? he would not have him labor under the idea that he is dead knowing that it is causing him so much grief right????
/ caught between "elias would immediately know that stanley is not actually stanford" and "the drama would be much more profound if he could not initially tell"
you no longer gravitate around the earth; you gravitate around him instead. your body measures time by the number of heartbeats since you last saw him. your limbs arrange themselves purely in relation to the position of his body.
in this space right here that we made for each other, you can say anything and i will not abandon you. unwrap the worst things you have done. watch me hold them up to the light and not even flinch.
/ truly the ultimate failing of 70s era stanlias was that neither of them were honest lmao. they both had feelings for each other by the end of it but elias initially was just there because stanley made him feel normal after an entire life of Wizard Torture(tm).
/ neither of them talked about their lives before because they didn't want to scare the other off. the husbands thing was what it was but neither of them actually confessed to anything– at least not until it was too late to do so on elias' part.
i can't say i've ever been acquainted with the, ah... stylings of the witches. if master foliot ever spoke of any of it, it was just that we were meant to surpass them...