Take Me Away

Icy crystals became all the more frigid as she continued to speak but he would remain silent, his condition catching up with him the longer he fought to keep his mind awake so he wouldn’t be fully vulnerable to her, at least, not more than he already was. His willpower to argue and drive her mad was waning, and though his face didn’t show it any more than it did on a normal day, his body was growing more and more weak by the second with each drop of blood that clung to the soil and grasses. It was the threat of hunting another of his kin that urge to lay more upright and fight at least a little while longer, hardly keen on allowing anyone else to be harmed, especially those few he loved so dearly. Before his mouth could open to deflect or submit, a sharp pain raced along his limb as she hit him, causing him to writhe away from her touch and a cry of pain to shed from his lungs.

With the adrenaline to stay alive slowly fading, pain was like a reactor, truly feeling everything as if a bomb had just gone off and with it the world wanted to vanish from his eyes. Maybe he had coiled further back into his cage than he had thought he had but he was pretty certain it was his actual vision that was fluttering in and out as pain surged. He continued to fight it with pants and growl of agony, all composure gone. Even still, tears never met his eyes as he took in breaths that sounded like he had been running a marathon. He did his best to stay focused on her.

“You must just be easily forgotten or simply not as important to him as he seems to be to you, an obsessed psychopath. You must be in love with him, and he never saw you as worth his time. I can see why,” he said, using what little energy he had left to spit toward her face with the aim of getting it into one of her eyes. It seemed like the other reason she seemed so hung up on his father. “Keep me if you must or kill me and save us the time... pet,” he snarled though it would pinch into another wave of pain. Within seconds of his last word, his head would crash to the ground and his world would go silent, left to fester in the sleeping world.

-raf exits via fainting-

manip + code: clae

It didn't bring her any pleasure to harm a child, even one as vile as Vanadium spawn. For all of the child’s defiance and resemblance to the one she hated more than anything in the world he was nothing more than a substitute for her anger and a pitiful one at that. Elias had been around his age when they’d first met. The icy gaze with the disdain and sense of superiority. It was all there to remind her of the first day she’d been presented to them as a frightened girl who didn't speak a word of the common tongue. Even his haughty manner of speaking was like hearing an echo of Elias speaking through him. She didn't flinch when he accused her of being forgettable. What made her teeth clench enough to make her jaws ache was the assumption that she loved that heartless bastard. Then the final punch to the gut. He called her pet and that was exactly how Elias had viewed her. A pet to bark commands at.

The ghost of her younger self and Elias’ voices echoed in her mind.

"Am I even a person to you?

”No. You were given to me and you played the role of dog so incredibly well that I had no reason to.”

The anger surged, so hot and suffocating that for a moment she really did want to kill that child. “I should dig a hole and bury you in it, you horrible little goblin,” she snarled, jerking herself away from the unconscious boy before she did something she regretted

- Exit Roisin

code: elyon | art: ookamina