It's the most available form of fidgeting. Chewing on a pen cap, smoking a cigarette, sucking on a lollipop, chewing gum. It's internalized fidgeting, a habit developed to help focus a mind that is constantly racing.
I suspect it became more pronounced when you suffered the injury to your leg and could no longer run as a way to do something similar. You fell back on the next readily available way to self-medicate.
Were I to psychoanal... never mind.
[ There was a brief pause before the next text. ]
As a rule we try to avoid tasting evidence. Of course Hannibal made a game of that. On our second meeting he feed me sausage made from the lungs of his latest victim.
cw: serial killers / cannibalism
It's the most available form of fidgeting. Chewing on a pen cap, smoking a cigarette, sucking on a lollipop, chewing gum. It's internalized fidgeting, a habit developed to help focus a mind that is constantly racing.
I suspect it became more pronounced when you suffered the injury to your leg and could no longer run as a way to do something similar. You fell back on the next readily available way to self-medicate.
Were I to psychoanal... never mind.
[ There was a brief pause before the next text. ]
As a rule we try to avoid tasting evidence. Of course Hannibal made a game of that. On our second meeting he feed me sausage made from the lungs of his latest victim.