“For some, thoughts can only be conveyed through hurting one another. And then, unable to find tranquility, quickly perish from this world.”
- Kasumi.
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Thwup-
Burning metal snapped the cords of her muscles like a wire-cutter. Her back bucked at the sudden force of impact, collapsing her legs inward and sending her spiraling to the ground. She felt the small pinch of rock pricking into her head, grinding her teeth in a recursive response to the stimulation. Blood trickled out of her in a slow flow, almost drawing out her loss of consciousness as some form of repentance. Her limbs grew heavy, the armor plating she wore growing in weight by the second. Footsteps approached towards her. Silently, she resigned herself to her fate. She had caused this, and she would take the punishment. Despite how she acted, she wasn't a sore loser. She bit her lip, internally screaming at the arrow being pushed deeper into her, a soldier's foot sinking the shaft deeper into her.
She closed her eyes, and listened to the soft dripping of her own blood and tears, a watered down reminder of her own failure.
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Drip, Drop, Drip, Drop- It’s time to wake up.
She’s still not doing it, now is she?
Is she even alive?
“You can’t sleep all day, can you?
A thousand blended voices flowed through her ears, a cacophony of silk and gravel that always felt on the brink of breaking harmonization, yet it never did. Her head felt like a sandbag, and the stiffness of her neck sent shocks down her back from every slight movement. Her eyes refused to open anymore, quivering at the mere suggestion of meeting the gaze of the pure pallid.
She moved her hands, feeling the harsh wood of a table beneath her, and opened her ears, hearing the full voice of them altogether. The Legion.
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“You seek to join us, those who have killed, burned, and maimed? Seek to join the outcasted, the ones in power, yet the ones with none at all?”
They hammered into her ears, and she couldn’t help but nod. She had tried hundreds of times, and failed, and this was her last chance. Her last chance to be put back into life, and do what she sought to. She hung her head, fatigue seeping into her bones like a gazelle struggling to break from a crocodile's bite. Even after all this time, she hadn’t gotten used to this feeling, time being rewound, and her dimensional body being placed in a world that once was. A world that cried out for a savior. She sank her body into the lax, metal chair she resided in, and drifted off to sleep for the thousandth time.
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Floral scents mixed in the air, barely disguising the odor of the mud-caked ground around Lira. She had no sense of how long she had been laying there, but she did not mind this. She sank her fingers into the puddy-like mud and pushed herself abreast, struggling to keep balance on wobbling legs.
Where will I go now? Where can I go now? Lila contemplated to herself. Unsure of what direction she should take. She stood there for a long while, almost becoming one with the scenery. A passerby at first glance could mistake her for some sort of forgotten statue. She shook her head, her loose hair sending ticklish prickles upon touching her nose. She took a step, and then another. I think, for now, I'll say goodbye to Dad. Resolving herself, she set off to continue her burden for the last time.