06-24-2021, 03:05 AM
straight for the throat you’re like an animal!
in for the kill, like you're an animal!
Ximen’s eyes squinted open. Caked in mud from the flood, he blended in amongst the gravestones and waterlogged earth. Eying Brymstone enter, he inhaled deeply—and caught Els’s scent between his teeth.
His fur bristled. What had this skull-fuck done—
Then he saw his sister’s body in the dirt. Already stinking of decay. Buzzing with flies.
Rage exploded behind his eyes. Ximen’s wings shivered. He inhaled, adding oxygen to the flaming rage beating in his chest, and the mud squelched under his paws—
He teleported.
Tears burned his golden eyes; he blinked them back, but they still blinded him.
He was shaking. Fuck, he couldn’t win a fight like this; even in favorable circumstances, Brymstone displayed command of two elemental powers and had the size advantage.
If Ximen wanted to assassinate the bastard, he’d have to be smart. But didn’t want to be. Why did he have to keep himself together while Tanglewoods crumbled around him? While Els died? Fuck martyrs, fuck the dead, fuck being a survivor.
He reappeared beside Atticus. The wolf was the only face in the crowd he could lean on, not with Arrow and Els dead. He couldn’t use his niblings as emotional support beams. It would be easier to run, but running meant leaving others to endure this tyrant’s reign.
Fuck. He was still shaking.
His fur bristled. What had this skull-fuck done—
Then he saw his sister’s body in the dirt. Already stinking of decay. Buzzing with flies.
Rage exploded behind his eyes. Ximen’s wings shivered. He inhaled, adding oxygen to the flaming rage beating in his chest, and the mud squelched under his paws—
He teleported.
Tears burned his golden eyes; he blinked them back, but they still blinded him.
He was shaking. Fuck, he couldn’t win a fight like this; even in favorable circumstances, Brymstone displayed command of two elemental powers and had the size advantage.
If Ximen wanted to assassinate the bastard, he’d have to be smart. But didn’t want to be. Why did he have to keep himself together while Tanglewoods crumbled around him? While Els died? Fuck martyrs, fuck the dead, fuck being a survivor.
He reappeared beside Atticus. The wolf was the only face in the crowd he could lean on, not with Arrow and Els dead. He couldn’t use his niblings as emotional support beams. It would be easier to run, but running meant leaving others to endure this tyrant’s reign.
Fuck. He was still shaking.
UNEXPECTED YET EXPECTED —
— i wanted to hate / i wanted to die / i wanted to see you sacrificed / i had to deal with the fear you gave me / but you fucker never tried to help me / i was jealous and i was scared / nobody ever replaced my pain / to say i’m not evil, to tell I’m not bad / too late, i’m lost in human nature / leave me be / set me free / leave me be / set me free / the hardest thing to me is facing the fear i live / no one can help me now, it’s under my heart / i’ll come to know the living, my demons are inside / i’ll bring them all to light / ———— emerged from the dark I come to life!