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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 12, 2015 13:38:48 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jul 12, 2015 13:38:48 GMT -5
he says he hasn't been calling. perhaps now he's started - or maybe sigrun has only started taking notice. the faint tug, a fervent need. she cannot go back in time, but neither is she particularly bound to its kingdom - the physical realm - and she is at his side in moments.
she has never known leopold in battle, never seen what has twisted him - but the monsters in themselves are not a new sight to sigrun. she is one too.
she appears in her purest form - a flicker of flame. her flames are dense, they spread quickly across the shell of the beast. in a moment, it is alight, consumed. not visibly engulfed - it lets off smoke and steam, skin puckers and peels; the flames glint blue if you watch closely, if you can make it out against the flailing, blackening shape of the monster.
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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 12, 2015 15:14:20 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jul 12, 2015 15:14:20 GMT -5
there is not violence on her mind, only joy - perhaps there is no distinction between the two for sigrun in her unbridled dance. she acs, twists, stomps, moves in the way a human form won't allow. her flames arc through the air, barely visible to the human eye, but it has never been about putting on a show. it has been about bliss - a hunger she's not paid mind to, finally satiated.
the flames are effective, destructive - recklessly so. sigrun doesn't stop after the first monster, setting onto the impending horde, ash in her wake.
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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 14, 2015 20:22:19 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jul 14, 2015 20:22:19 GMT -5
the ground is charred, the breeze carrying smoke, lifting tendrils of hair from her shoulders as she drops to her knees in front of leopold.
"are you okay?" she reaches out to cup his face in her hands, wiping soot from his skin. she smiles a little. "did i get carried away?"
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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 16, 2015 16:16:10 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jul 16, 2015 16:16:10 GMT -5
she's not entirely oblivious to his pain, to his burns, but sigrun doesn't know how to heal them. (she has done what he's asked, though, protected him) her brow creases when he bursts into a coughing fit. "we should go." she takes his arm around her shoulders. she is at home among the flames, but saddened by this smouldering wasteland they built.
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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 22, 2015 19:09:29 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Jul 22, 2015 19:09:29 GMT -5
she looks perplexed and sorry, mouth twisted into a little frown, even as his fingers brush her cheek with a semblance of his old affection. water, she mouths the word as if its foreign. there is none. there are no comforting words, only her sturdy form to hold him up, to keep him walking.
flames are from friction, but she has no idea where water comes from. she's never felt thirst enough to care where water comes from.
sigrun squints into the distance, the shimmer of civilization on the horizon.
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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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Aug 3, 2015 19:25:07 GMT -5
Post by sigrun on Aug 3, 2015 19:25:07 GMT -5
death and the fear of it (fear in general, even) is beyond her. she sits, flitting in the fire the soldiers start, the less grievously injured warming their palms against the cold of the night.
"you called." her words are nowhere near inflected enough to imply playfulness. she is still covered in soot, and she blackens his palms when she links her fingers in his.
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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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