01-01-2021, 08:20 AM
[div style="margin: auto; background-image: linear-gradient(to top left, #575f70 50%, #68949f 50%); max-width: 475px; height: auto; padding: 2%; border: 1px #1d1d1d solid;"][div style="margin: auto; background-color: #1d1d1d; max-width: 475px; color: #fefefe; padding: 5%; min-height: 20px; border: 1px #1d1d1d solid; font-family: verdana; font-size: 9pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 17px;"]The mind is a wonderful and terrible thing. Powerful that it may conjure and perform with supposed ease, restrictions only so far as it may be stretched. Yet fragile it, a glass cage with walls beckoning the thrown stone, beneath strain falling away in a cascade of shards.
To exist — live was to ache for the tranquillity of a clear mind even as the pieces cut into shaking fingers incapable of resembling the mess it had become.
The days proceeding the eviction of their captors had been exceedingly uneventful, though blatant falsehood would it be to admit displeasure with such. As best he had been capable held as closely together his own deteriorating mind, the stress caused a strain he was unaccustomed to, yet numb had he grown beneath a carefully affixed facade. Always easier to pretend, allow strained smile and false cheer to invade few words, focused upon the minimal good. Alone may he discard it, allow the terror to well and seep through the cracks, such his reasoning for traversing the twisted woodlet.
Short cut his time, however, sharp the crack, beneath ravenous tongue of heat wood popping and giving way with a groan. Expected but not apparent the fall, trajectory shifting as hasty steps grew clumsy. Scene he entered perplexing at first glance. Peered to the trunk smothered beneath risen earth, hissing as dwindling embers died. Close together a trio, familiar two and other stranger, yet manner of speech indicated she was one of them. Soothed nerves for a moment before a few tentative steps drew him closer, note made of how Elsweyr seemed lost, reduced beneath a plight her tongue tripped over as the words filled the smoke tinted air.
Words failed as teeth ground into his tongue, inadequate all that arose in stilted thoughts. About vision flicked, sought something that may assist, anything he may say or do. Upward chin moved, mouth working without sound, approach conducted with small steps. Forth leaning, upon toes weight braced, offered a smile as he strained to graze his nose against her shoulder. "We help, family always there for each other."
To exist — live was to ache for the tranquillity of a clear mind even as the pieces cut into shaking fingers incapable of resembling the mess it had become.
The days proceeding the eviction of their captors had been exceedingly uneventful, though blatant falsehood would it be to admit displeasure with such. As best he had been capable held as closely together his own deteriorating mind, the stress caused a strain he was unaccustomed to, yet numb had he grown beneath a carefully affixed facade. Always easier to pretend, allow strained smile and false cheer to invade few words, focused upon the minimal good. Alone may he discard it, allow the terror to well and seep through the cracks, such his reasoning for traversing the twisted woodlet.
Short cut his time, however, sharp the crack, beneath ravenous tongue of heat wood popping and giving way with a groan. Expected but not apparent the fall, trajectory shifting as hasty steps grew clumsy. Scene he entered perplexing at first glance. Peered to the trunk smothered beneath risen earth, hissing as dwindling embers died. Close together a trio, familiar two and other stranger, yet manner of speech indicated she was one of them. Soothed nerves for a moment before a few tentative steps drew him closer, note made of how Elsweyr seemed lost, reduced beneath a plight her tongue tripped over as the words filled the smoke tinted air.
Words failed as teeth ground into his tongue, inadequate all that arose in stilted thoughts. About vision flicked, sought something that may assist, anything he may say or do. Upward chin moved, mouth working without sound, approach conducted with small steps. Forth leaning, upon toes weight braced, offered a smile as he strained to graze his nose against her shoulder. "We help, family always there for each other."