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Jun 20, 2015 23:09:12 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jun 20, 2015 23:09:12 GMT -5
three times he tried to run. three times, he learned better.
he's learned not to be sloppy, to bide his time. he's not shackled to the wall or locked in the room. he can wander the catacombs, he can leave them - he does, sometimes. not to run away, not anymore; there's nothing to keep him above ground. there's nothing that draws him up but boredom below.
the night air is cool and it seems fresh, even in the smog of a city. he's walking without aim. perhaps there's something of a longing, but not for anything tangible, anything achievable.
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Jun 20, 2015 23:21:46 GMT -5
Post by myron on Jun 20, 2015 23:21:46 GMT -5
his little pet loves to wander. like a stray cat he slips out but always he comes back. it concerns him little what jude does anymore. there are times, however, when he feels it necessary for a reminder, an aide-mémoire so to speak, of his place.
arms wrap round the slight boy’s shoulders, drape down his chest. he leans his face mere inches from the skin. warm breath ghosts against his neck.
“jude, my little stray, whatever are you up to?” words projected into the mind, displayed like writing for the near-deaf boy, yet spoken so the lips so near brush his skin. “don’t you miss me, my pet?”
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Jun 20, 2015 23:43:31 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jun 20, 2015 23:43:31 GMT -5
he feels an arm wrapped around him, and he twists sharply in panic, trying to shove the weight off him. then he realizes who it is, stops dead. there is still panic, but it petrifies him. he is not supposed to be here.
it has always been easy to ignore people, but the king makes it impossible, forces his words into judah's head. he shudders involuntarily at the ghosting breath against his skin.
judah's nails dig into myron's arm. he tries to turn - he wants to be able to see him.
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Jun 20, 2015 23:57:02 GMT -5
Post by myron on Jun 20, 2015 23:57:02 GMT -5
panic ripples through judah in the most beautiful way. for all his airs of toughness, he is still but a human child. he strokes the boy’s cheek, smiling.
“you’ve traveled very far from home.” the weight he’s pressed on the boy lifts. he lets him twist to peer upon his grinning face, those glinting eyes. “but this isn’t the first time, is it? you sneak out often. what a naughty boy you are.”
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Jun 21, 2015 0:14:18 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jun 21, 2015 0:14:18 GMT -5
he always feels uneasy when he can't see myron's lips moving. he doesn't need to read them, but he hates the disembodied words, they feel too much like his own thoughts.
his hands drop, and he steps back. the king holds unwavering control over judah, but it's not physical - it doesn't need to be. judah knows just how outmatched he is, there is no use in trying to bolt. a passing stranger jostles his shoulder, and he stumbles further from myron.
"i needed air." his motions are clean and mechanical, now that he's detached himself from fear.
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Jun 21, 2015 1:04:16 GMT -5
Post by myron on Jun 21, 2015 1:04:16 GMT -5
may judah never forget his place. he has been a very well behaved pet. well, mostly. there was that one other sordid affair with chevalier. so far he’s let that slide.
“did you? well, you are only human.” he touches lightly the boy’s face, where ever he likes in fact. judah belongs to him in body and soul. never does he let him forget it. “i guess i can’t really hold it against you. the surface is a beautiful place, though the humans have caused such destruction here.”
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Jun 21, 2015 15:15:33 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jun 21, 2015 15:15:33 GMT -5
he is always infuriatingly gentle. judah lets myron stroke him, stays still, but meets his eyes coldly. he is obedient, but he won't pretend to enjoy his enslavement, nor to love the king. he will obey, and nothing more.
"was it the humans?"
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Jun 21, 2015 20:51:55 GMT -5
Post by myron on Jun 21, 2015 20:51:55 GMT -5
his body relents to myron, but not the mind. cold eyes glimmer in his pale face, cynicism in his mind. from his lips rises a laugh. it’s short, ending as soon as it begins.
“oh, my ignorant child. the strigoi only exist because of the human’s mistakes. they destroyed the world, and we were born to save it. but i don’t expect you to understand, you’re only human.” he pushes his fingers through the bit of hair still left on his shaven skull. “you’ll understand one day.”
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Jun 21, 2015 22:44:15 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jun 21, 2015 22:44:15 GMT -5
he doesn't answer. myron is wrong. he is self-absorbed and can't see past his own ego. it was humans who abandoned him, but it was the strigoi that made judah suffer.
he feels his fingers in his hair - the king has always loved judah's hair long, had a fit when he cut it. half-heartedly, he tries to bend out of myron's hold, shaking his head.
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Jun 22, 2015 20:40:45 GMT -5
Post by myron on Jun 22, 2015 20:40:45 GMT -5
in those green eyes, the thoughts that churn in his half-shaven head are laid bare for myron. he needs only to look into them to guess what thought passes through. and he is in denial of the truth delivered to him as human’s are so adept at doing.
“you don’t believe me. do you really think it ego that i say humans destroyed the world?” his grip on judah tightens, becomes unbreakable. he has always relented when pushed away by the boy. “what ignorance. haven’t i given you a proper education? of all the livestock, i’ve given you more than any of them will ever get. i’ve treated you like a person. do you call that suffering? the ones you let feed from you are the ones who give you suffering.”
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Jun 24, 2015 22:00:48 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jun 24, 2015 22:00:48 GMT -5
he never feels the intrusion, can never really sense when myron is prying open his mind and rifling through his thoughts, as casual as the morning paper. but he can tell - from the subtle shift in his expression, just before the more obvious tightening of his grip, yanking judah's head up.
it had always made him curious - why myron let him be this way. he could have raised judah into perfect and mindless obedience, undoubtedly. (even so, it's hard to say how much he is himself, and how much he is the king's creation).
his fingers are gripping myron's arm, he's scowling.
judah refuses to be grateful for his captivity, as much as he is resigned to it.
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Jun 25, 2015 23:47:20 GMT -5
Post by myron on Jun 25, 2015 23:47:20 GMT -5
something in the fine texture of the little shaved hairs draws his touch, the sensations of the skull and the skin just beneath it mesmerizing. sadness follows. a mourning of the beautiful wavy locks fills him, nearly consuming. how could he?
“you’ll understand soon, very soon. it won’t be long before your precious human’s decide that you’ve lived long enough.” the sadness leaks into his expression, twisting it to one so breathtakingly miserable and out of place. “magician’s aren’t your friends. the common people may save you. if you want liberation, an end to the cycle, it is them you should seek. will you seek them out, rebel against not only the strigoi but the magicians who put you in this hell?”
he forces judah to look up, holds him in place while his words penetrate the boy’s mind. and subtle, he smiles.
“will you?”
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Jun 28, 2015 19:54:22 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jun 28, 2015 19:54:22 GMT -5
myron strokes him like a pet, his touch gentle but fascinated. judah has always been treated as a rarity, something special. he didn't want to make sense of myron, he didn't want to understand him or the strigoi and their fascination with humans. they liked dinner and entertainment, simple as that.
despite himself, judah feels affected by myron's sadness. he chalks it up entirely to vampiric glamour, he couldn't possibly hold any sympathy for his captor.
"yes." he signs. he want to bring an end to the strigoi - magicians don't concern him as much. but they, too, are tyrants.
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Jul 2, 2015 20:41:37 GMT -5
Post by myron on Jul 2, 2015 20:41:37 GMT -5
mutinous his hateful pet. the seeds he planted of rebellion took root too well in the fertile soil of his mind.
“magicians are the enemy.” still lips, the words are implanted in the mind. how easy to manipulate when he can let one believe the thoughts he pushes are their own. a smile on his lips. they part now to form words, hands moving to spell out the words he says. “go seek them out, for your survival and freedom. i support you.”
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Jul 2, 2015 21:10:43 GMT -5
Post by judah stafford on Jul 2, 2015 21:10:43 GMT -5
despite myron's suggestion, judah's primary enemy remains strigoi, remains their king. but the magicians are certainly not blameless. there is enough anger in judah for them all.
will myron support him, judah wonders, when he burns him alive, when he puts a stake through his heart or slices through the bones of his neck, fulfills his bloody fantasies of vengeance.
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