sometimes throw caution away - open; joining + tangler

[rhosmari]

FIRE AND "BRYMSTONE"

For a moment there was nothing as he stared at vem, nothing but a vast emptiness that slowly began to stir. To quake and splinter as cracks raced against it and spilled over with something that was burning. Burning. And it hurt. His eyes if they could have widened would have, the pain splintering and causing heat to smolder and smoke up through nonexistent nostrils. His chest shuddered as he tried to think if something to say. Something tried to break forth from the skull faced horror but try as he might there was nothing he wanted to say. This burning he attached to emotions, a dead thing that was too painful to keep. His head tilted, expressions nothing. Hard to read something that bore bone. His eyes shook in their sockets as he slowly looked away from vem and down to the creature that he had captured on a while. The oriental grimacing through her own pain that he had laid upon her. The pain if his poison. His tail twitched, the scrapping of exoskeleton against exoskeleton jarring before he lifted his head up one more. Trying his best to not cave in. To not become a mess again. "I watched them burn..." Was his first words saud. Not even noting the former leader beneath his paws. His orbs stared into the other bone faces creature, the smell of rotten flesh almost like bitter roses.

Why did you leave me? The thought spiraled in his head but never made it forth from his throat. Born jaw held together only by sinew and muscles shaking and snapping closed randomly as he attempted to hold himself together. Their beauty, he missed it. Watching vis ever changing and adapting firm. Pain. He looked away, drips of molten lava dragging and dripping from slightly parted jaws. Breaking. He was breaking. Barely holding on. Heat like fumes billowing from his tiger like figure. "Vey do not. Keep quiet." The former Dragon King hissed, tongue sliding against the glowing heat before he suddenly kicked her. Elsweyr let out a yowl of pain as she rolled across the sand, resting away from the group,  breathing hard. To Brym vey had held him together, helped him see that he was no more a monster than anyone else could be. But then...why?

Blood seeped from her side from his claws and he lifted up his bloodied claws pointing at her. "I had no knowledge of who she was but if you want her take her. She can not move. I...." A pause. Should he stay here and always hurt for a love he could never have? His teeth clattered shut on a sharp snap before he shook his head. Stop looking at vem. Stop wanting vem. No. "I will kill her for you to become a member here." If where she came from was an annoyance then an example needed to be set.

AND I'M BACK TO MY WAYS, CAUSE I'M HEARTLESS
SEVEN YEARS I BEEN SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS NOW

Reggan