seeking, yearning, reaching hands
“You stayed here to do something. Do it.”
Amandla Stenberg & Manny Jacinto as Osha Aniseya & Qimir/The Stranger in The Acolyte (2024) by Leslye Headland
Wounds of the Earth
— by xis.lanyx
“… and I whispered to him, ‘You are not a member of the dead'… and he was laughing as I said, ‘Alive, alive,’ his hand touching my cheek, stroking my face, clasping finally my chin as he guided me into the light…”
Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976) Part II