the inherent power exchange in lighting someone's stogies. [prose excerpt: dark romance/gritty realism]
dynamics: sapphoachillean, saphboys/lesboys [twunk/butch]; toxic/frenemies [love/hate (onidere)]
cw: smoking/tobacco, alcohol/drunkenness, (fantasized) violence/human ashtray
... And yet, I still couldn't make a move.
“I knew you'd be too chickenshit, Gallo,” Wren had said when I accompanied hir outside for hir hourly cigarette. “Fuck you.” I clapped my Zippo shut very loudly in hir face. To hir credit, sie remained unphased. “Oh, I will.... That's another seven years to your postmortem tab.”