fears find you, always | larissa, day 1
Jun 20, 2023 14:35:42 GMT -5
Post by hesper hart 🐺 d9f on Jun 20, 2023 14:35:42 GMT -5
She hadn't spoken since the three of them had stumbled upon their own corpses. Too many questions overlapped, one starting in her head before she could finish or even processing the other, and the whispers from the trees didn't make things any easier. The way all of Perry's teeth had remained so perfectly intact, glimmering porcelain among the rot, the way Bellamy could still discerned by his big brown eyes even through the bloated and pecked at flesh, the way Larissa now knew what her own body would look like eventually, if she were to fail here-
She hadn't spoken, because she couldn't, because even though hiding her fear was something she promised not to do, right now feeling her fear would've let it overcome her. None of this made sense. None of it was fair, or logical. There shouldn't have been little fairies guiding her to sinister weapons or dancing to music which stemmed from nowhere in particular. Her skin wasn't supposed to glow every time she started to get worked up, like a candle revealing its flames in the moments before it might explode from within. Beasts like Perry's, or the one that'd tried to follow Larissa earlier- they weren't ones she could recall being in any games before, so there was no idea what they were truly capable of. And Bellamy's eyes weren't even brown most of the time as he was now- they changed with his moods. It was too much to be afraid of at once- she couldn't.
She took in a deep breath.
The worse of it, it would seem, was behind them. But she wasn't stopping anytime soon, even though the sun had already set quite a bit ago. Giant faintly-glowing mushrooms was an improvement from out-and-out rot, but Larissa recalled the forest she'd started the day in, and she had full intentions of ending up back there.
"We're close. Not much further."
She hadn't spoken, because she couldn't, because even though hiding her fear was something she promised not to do, right now feeling her fear would've let it overcome her. None of this made sense. None of it was fair, or logical. There shouldn't have been little fairies guiding her to sinister weapons or dancing to music which stemmed from nowhere in particular. Her skin wasn't supposed to glow every time she started to get worked up, like a candle revealing its flames in the moments before it might explode from within. Beasts like Perry's, or the one that'd tried to follow Larissa earlier- they weren't ones she could recall being in any games before, so there was no idea what they were truly capable of. And Bellamy's eyes weren't even brown most of the time as he was now- they changed with his moods. It was too much to be afraid of at once- she couldn't.
She took in a deep breath.
The worse of it, it would seem, was behind them. But she wasn't stopping anytime soon, even though the sun had already set quite a bit ago. Giant faintly-glowing mushrooms was an improvement from out-and-out rot, but Larissa recalled the forest she'd started the day in, and she had full intentions of ending up back there.
"We're close. Not much further."
