bloodflood pt.ii asa vs esme
Oct 28, 2014 23:33:24 GMT -5
Post by gamemaker kelsier on Oct 28, 2014 23:33:24 GMT -5
A S A R E A U
He'd almost broken down and reached out a hand to tug at Esme's arm when they parted ways. He didn't want to be all alone in the darkness but just because they'd teamed up to kill the beast it didn't mean they could be friends. They both had alliances to get back to, they both had different intentions on what the outcome of this games should be. They couldn't stay together because the truth was that they were still enemies. He might have wrapped a bandage around the girl's arm and might have slayed the enormous mutt that had inhabited the pit before them but that would mean nothing tomorrow when they met in battle.
He'd wandered far that day, stairs taking him out of the beast pit even though his whole body ached and all he wanted to do was lay down and sleep. He needed to find them, his friends. He needed to find them and apologize for getting lost and tether himself to them so that it could never happen again. The problem was that it was so damned dark and he had no idea of where he was going. Retracing his steps did not work; he didn't know where he'd come from in the first place. This arena was hopeless, frustratingly confusing.
He was still searching when the anthem lit the ceiling up and announced a retinue of faces. He stood staring, sunglasses half slid down his nose as his heart stood still for long moments. The music faded and the rock went dark without showing hide nor hair of Pearl, Barnabas or Patricia. Valerie. They'd shared a train together and hardly spoken but she'd still been the only piece of home that he'd been able to align himself with. Careers usually lasted longer. He'd known that she'd have to die eventually if he wanted to meet his goal but eventually is such a loose term, he hadn't realized that it would come so soon.
He spent the night laid up against the tunnel wall, flicking his flashlight on and off, wishing that Barnabas would come around the corner and spot him there. He missed the familiar warmth of his friend and wondered how he fared, if he was going alright, if he'd hear a cannon go off in the middle of the night. He was sure that Pearl and Patricia would take care of him as best they could. He trusted Pearl to at least. Patricia was less certain. One night she had come to kill him, the next to heal and this night she was not in sight at all.
He moves off after a few hours of laying in the darkness but sleep has evaded him. Worry chews on him like an angry dog and somehow his fingers can't stay warm. The flashlight shakes in his grasp. He walks again but his feet shuffle somehow and an overwhelming sense of doom rests on his shoulders. He is going to die today.
His lantern has gone out. He has matches but he can't find the will to light it. He flicks off his flashlight too and the world is dark as night. His sunglasses are scratched and they hide tired eyes but somehow the exhaustion extends further than his muscles. His bones are weary.
He hears one set of footsteps in the darkness and somehow he reacts. His alliance has three sets. This is one set. He waits, silent as torchlight blinks at him but the form is too blurred behind the sunglasses to make out, his head is too blurred to slur out words and he is a machine.
He is a what those that enter the games are raised to fear.
He is a career.
[asa flicks off flashlight]
[ASA ATTACKS esme]
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[Stabbed in Forearm -- 8.5 damage]
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