cross our bones ⋆ { day three } lenny/mutts
Feb 27, 2016 12:34:22 GMT -5
Post by D6f Carmen Cantelou [aza] on Feb 27, 2016 12:34:22 GMT -5
noelia
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I'm beginning to feel immune to this monster growing within my chest. It has taught me a variety of emotions, feelings, traits and passages to follow and weave. It was a given that being the games would change a person -- but the extent was unknown.
The sun falls but the heat does not. We remain trapped by the humidity of it all and watch as the stars rise only to seep into the darkness of the night. They get dimmer with each new day, Leticia's named one becoming lost in the ever-changing dot-to-dot puzzle.
I chose her as the brightest one, but even the brightest stars burn out.
The anthem cascades across the bleakness; faces worming their way through my eyes and into my head. Delta Castley and Quadrys Lexig fill the above with their greying spirits. Now only a memory, scarred and bruised and cracked.
Nothing will be the same for them.
But Dane remains untouched by the brutality. His innocence flows around in his blood, unstained by the harsh reality of the world which we struggle to live in. He has hurt and broke, but not killed. Almost a murderer, but not quite.
Almost a murderer, a monster like me.
The colours fade into the blackness, and I lose myself in a sheet of dreams as I lie on the dirt floor. Everything changes in my time of peacefulness, yet serenity does not restore itself to my bones. A spirit escaped could not be captured once more, despite best efforts.
Startled.
Silence becomes sound, and my claws reach for the bloodied axe, metal swarming with the ghost of it's victim.
My eyes are flung open by the buzz of a fly. Awoken, I am welcomed into the arms of a new day. I count the days on my fingers: one, two, three -- and think back to my roots.
Leticia fighting hopelessly for a stolen life. Her battle was not winnable, yet she still managed to proceed with feigned honour and pride.
I watched her with wide eyes, on the edge of my seat with voices cut out by a deafening, monotonous hum in my ear. It morphs itself as I watch her hands weave between her enemies, until eventually:
A scream pours salt into my wounds.
Kitty Keeni had thrust a spear into her eye, yet I did not twitch or move. I did not cry in the moment. Heroism was not defined by tears, but soon I became the damsel in distress I'd met in childish stories.
My head shakes to scramble the already broken memories.
The swamp atmosphere shifts, and the waters bubble and boil. I blink between the vegetation and try to catch a glimpse of what is going on until I am shook by the sight before me.
Mutts.
I count none to one, and one to two. and hop to my feet to attack.
The monster in me had taught me to love, to forgive and to fight. But it made me a warrior, a saint and a sinner.
This evil has made me.
[ noelia attacks skeleton guy ]
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[ 11018 -- Shallow Cut on Right Thigh -- 3.5 damage ]
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