By and By [Unnamed, Day 2]

[marguerite harvard d2a (zori)]

m a g i

Oh and do your mem'ries ever take you back
Into another place in time
And do you ever miss the feelings and the love

Magi had taken the time to cut the meat from the beast’s body as though he knew how to carve up the game. He’d already bloodied his hands from their fight earlier, this just left him caked in red and his clothes further a patchwork of stains.

“Are you feeling any better?” Magi offered to Lara. He’d done his best to help patch her up after the deer had reared its ugly head. More than the physical he expected the thoughts racing through her head might prove worse – her eye practically taken out of her head – and having to live like that, at least for the rest of the games. “Sorry, that’s probably a stupid question.”

He had a habit of saying the wrong thing. He hoped she didn’t take it too personally. He knelt and wrapped his arms around his knees.

“Back in three, I never had to do anything like this. I was a welder, so I spent most of my time trying to piece things together.” His life had been putting odd ends together with enough heat to melt whatever had been in his path. And he’d been good at that, too. It had been honest work for a boy who found joy in the routine.

“What did you do back in eight?”


[Magi picks up/does maintenance stuff]

ELEGANT