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Aug 27, 2015 22:28:10 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Aug 27, 2015 22:28:10 GMT -5
how could she know what her actions meant to him? the indifferent in which she greeted everything became as a barrier to the human experience. yet without her intervention, he wouldn’t be alive and for that he would be eternally grateful.
“sigrun.” weakly, he smiles. “you’re still here.”
their linked hands are an object of fascination. soot dusting her fingers becomes a black outline against the stark white bandages over his blistered skin. perhaps there is something poetic to be said.
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Aug 3, 2015 13:28:43 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Aug 3, 2015 13:28:43 GMT -5
the distance back feels too great. his seared skin screams its agony, dry throat torn by coughing. stumbling, falling, he make it back only by her help alone.
he leans heavily against the walls of a old building, crumbling and overtaken by greenery. but close enough they're now that they're soon surrounded by medics. leo's lifted to a gurney, taken to a small white room filled of various medical equipment.
"let sigrun in," he wheezes once he's declared stable, and the hospital staff are leaving him to himself.
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Jul 19, 2015 18:41:06 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 19, 2015 18:41:06 GMT -5
despite stinging fingers he touches them to her cheek. so warm her skin, silken and white, and comforting her arms around his shoulders. his weight is leaned on her without shame.
“water,” he rasps when need for it is too much to endure. dry as desert sand is his throat, and raw and smoked. “please.”
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Jul 15, 2015 20:53:43 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 15, 2015 20:53:43 GMT -5
“jean?” an assumption of a sibling surfaces in his mind. too young this woman was to have a child old enough to run off. no older than her early twenties she appeared, half his age most likely. “is that your brother?”
hopes raise at her repetition, his son’s name lifting off her tongue. but his heart falls to his stomach when she admits not knowing the name. finding his son will not be easy, though he knew that from the start. ezra was very much like the woman who raised him, resourceful. adopted, she wasn’t his mother biologically, yet so much alike they were.
“thank you anyways.” disappointment colors his voice, soft and slow coming. a bright colored macaron he takes from her, a smile curling to his lips. “thank you.”
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Jul 15, 2015 20:42:36 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 15, 2015 20:42:36 GMT -5
how easy it was to forget the danger she posed. saccharine smiles and doe-eyes were but a façade, hiding the truth beneath a veil of innocence. amid the charred terrain her nature was plain as day.
“i’m fine.” hoarse is the voice he speaks, broken by fits of hacking coughs. “i’m alive because of you. thank you.”
a protector she wasn’t yet she had tried, an effort he wouldn’t allow to go unacknowledged. pain pulsed from reddened skin with every movement. easily it was ignored. he could be dead.
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Jul 13, 2015 0:07:13 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 13, 2015 0:07:13 GMT -5
such rotten a reception he’s received. not a soul offers him direction to his runaway child (although ezra was grown now and far from being a child). a sigh pushes past his lips, chest heaving. no wrongs had he committed against commoners. he risked life and limb for their safety, yet not even one could point him towards his son?
hope nearly lost, a shining light of human kindness restores his faith. wildly her hand waves to draw his attention, and she calls out loudly and cheerfully. to her he looks with uncertainty at first and then he softens to her.
“yes. my son moves to these parts, but he wouldn’t tell me his address. i want to see him.” a display of emotions is rampant on this bright eyed woman’s face. he watches with interest as they flit through and settle. “his name is ezra. do you know him?”
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Jul 12, 2015 23:32:56 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 12, 2015 23:32:56 GMT -5
blood wet his fingers, seeped through his clothes. the sight, the smell, of it twists his stomach into painful knots. how many would die before these monsters were finally wiped out?
metal clanks. he looks at the necklaces, a locket and dog tags. the name inscribe in blocky letters
“you’re going to give it to that girl yourself. you hear me soldier? you are going to make it.” shouts rose up from somewhere close by. the medical stuff alerted to ciaran’s plight. “hear that? you’ll be in good hands soon. you’re going to live, and the reinforcements will be with your men any second.”
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Jul 12, 2015 22:31:51 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 12, 2015 22:31:51 GMT -5
hotter and brighter the flames grow. across the verdant vegetation it spreads. the hairs on his arms singed under the heat of the raging fire, his skin blistering. consciousness slips, fades into feverish sleep. he awakens to searing pain, coughing.
up from the ground he sits to survey the destruction around him. the blackened skeleton of a forest stretches far as his bleary vision allows. in the center of it all mele, sigrun, in swirls of calming fire. a figure dancing beautifully amid the destruction likely caused by her own doing.
leopold tries to speak, finds the words choked behind inhaled soot.
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Jul 12, 2015 14:10:22 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 12, 2015 14:10:22 GMT -5
the thought of her—one final thought before death—slipped from his subconscious, played through his mind. one final time he wished to see her. mele, beautiful mele, and the wild dance that captivated him so.
he shut up his eyes against impending disaster. pain didn’t follow as he anticipated. light, like a flame flickering to life, burst into existence. it was bright, shining red through his closed lids. eyes opened enough to catch glimpses of blue flickers then closed again. fire. it was spreading, engulfing.
arms pulled up over his head protect the face.
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Jul 10, 2015 19:12:36 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 10, 2015 19:12:36 GMT -5
the battlefield he hasn’t seen since his promotion. a general on the front lines is no good to his men. yet, here he is among his fallen soldiers in a fight against an unusually fierce and organized assembly of monsters. nearly all of his company had been wiped out. one on one with the largest of the nasty beats, he was all that remained and so was it.
exhaustion made heavy his limbs and slow his attacks. just by a hair he’d dodged lethal attacks, but his luck was running out. few of it’s attacks hit. he was running now to avoid certain death. with every opening, he fired silver bullets into it. unfazed, seemingly, it pursued.
a single rock in the path took him down, left him at the mercy of the quickly approaching monster. he fired into it until his ammo ran out with a useless click of the rifle. the end was approaching with swiftness he never thought it would. there had to have been at least thirty more years left in him yet, but here was his death staring him in the face.
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Jul 10, 2015 13:24:08 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 10, 2015 13:24:08 GMT -5
unfamiliar these streets of cracking asphalt, the walkways crumbling and more dirt now than cement. buildings are worser for wear, broken windows and leaking roofs. life here was dismal, a struggle. and here his son chose to take root. where exactly was what he was trying to find out. no address was left for him when ezra ran off.
for nearly an hour now he wandered without aim. any in his path rushing past with fear in their eyes. a magician in these parts?
"excuse me," he calls out in vain. "i am looking for a young man with dark hair. his name is ezra, have you seen him?" hurried past without answer, the commoners duck their heads and don't look back. "please, i just need a moment of your time."
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Jul 8, 2015 22:28:44 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jul 8, 2015 22:28:44 GMT -5
never will she understand. something not human cannot hope to understand the human struggle. her time isn’t finite, it’s ceaseless. he grows older and she is unchanged, and that’s how it’ll remain.
“you finally see reason.” a little chuckle. “and you are blind to the truth of the world. your entranced by glow of light and the shimmer of water.”
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Jun 27, 2015 20:55:28 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 27, 2015 20:55:28 GMT -5
the cruelty of this ruined world has robbed him of the ability to appreciate beauty. what little he glimpses in restored museums and in the world outside is meaningless, pictures and trees.
“perhaps you can show me what a miracle is, because i’ve seen none in this life. and beauty is fleeting and artificial. what beauty is left?” she speaks of such foreign things, longs to invoke memories of the past in which things had seemed so wonderful. “maybe that’s why you’ve come back now of all times, to save me from being consumed by the horrors of the world.”
or maybe he’s drawing on straws.
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Jun 23, 2015 22:23:19 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 23, 2015 22:23:19 GMT -5
outside of time she lives, an unchanging existence. how easily she dismisses his melancholy, blames it a longing for times gone by. it’s nothing close. such nativity she displays. will she ever become wise to the way of the world she is so fond of.
“you will see them whether i show you or not. this world is full of them, and as a soldier, i see them every day.”
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Jun 23, 2015 22:11:16 GMT -5
Post by leopold ambrose on Jun 23, 2015 22:11:16 GMT -5
“sergeant callaghan,” his voice rings sharp and authorities to the despairing soldier. “you are in no shape for battle.”
fresh blood rises to his lips. internal injuries are a likelihood leopold dreads. surely if the sergeant reenters battle it will be his last. the medic must see him, immediately if possible. so dogged is ciaran that leopold asserts his authority to calm him, to coerce him towards the care he needs. a soldier of his caliber is a terribly loss.
his body is near limp in his supportive hold, a deadweight. he uses strength he hasn’t used in years to guide him. age make known their aches in joints and muscles that throb protest at every movement. slowly he takes every step. “at ease soldier, you're safe now. reinforcements are on the way.”
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