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Mithos Yggdrasill ([personal profile] imatreenow) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2012-06-16 09:18 am

taste the blood as feathers fly

Who: Mithos, Sheena, Freyjadour, Sayo, Raine
What: Confessions of a quadmillennial drama queen
When: Saturday the 16th, morning
Where: Somewhere in the village
Summary: Martel is gone and Mithos takes it about as well as usual. Misplaced rage very nearly solves everything (except not really), until someone has to show up and ruin it all. Then other stuff happens.
Rating: T for tantrum

[Cycles, patterns, unrelenting repetition - it becomes a way of life after so many stretched-out years, and especially in somewhere like Luceti, somewhere shaped and re-shaped by comings and goings yet somehow always the same. Over and over again. Mithos climbs the stairs, like he does every morning, to pay pilgrimmage to Martel's room and make sure that even if she remains in the custody of the Malnosso, she at least hasn't returned 'home'. Insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, like maybe this time his sister would stay by his side and he could be where he belongs. When he pushes the door open, he expects to see the same clothes sitting neatly on the chair, folded by patient hands months ago, waiting to be put away by their owner. The panpipes should be on the bedside table, perched precisely where he sets them down every day when he's done playing. The sheets and blankets should be rumpled just so, just as they were the day she was taken, her scent no longer lingering between the threads, neutralized by his own.

He takes a breath and his eyes sweep the space. The bed is right. The panpipes are right. The clothes are gone.

Gone. One word, one sharp syllable lodged into his chest, his ribcage constricting around it and pushing the tips of bone into the raw yielding tissue of his heart - he swears he can feel it puncture. The only sounds he can hear are the ones in his head, gutted memories, hollow voices, the same bad dream returning with a vengeance. His feet carry him to the wardrobe. Pull a drawer open. Empty. He backs away as though singed, sinking to the bed. He crumbles as soon as his body touches the blankets that don't smell of his sister anymore. His legs fold underneath him; his spine curls him into a ball; his fingers shape trembling fists. Tears, at first startled by the suddenness of loss, finally come spilling out.

Time keeps going around him. His swollen tearducts run dry and his body is still, but it's isn't alright. It isn't enough. Crimes should be met with punishment, and it is a crime of the highest order that his sister should be denied reprieve from her imminent death in a world that wanted neither of them. It is a crime of an even higher order that she should be pried from him, that he should be separated from her. But there is nobody on the other end of this crime. Nobody to blame. Nobody to wrest revenge from. Nothing he can do about it.

He refuses to accept that answer. He pushes himself up from the blankets. He stands, and he walks back down the stairs, and he takes up a sword. Out the door. Up the road. No destination in mind - let fate choose his target, and let it choose wisely.]
wise_maiden: (waiting to change)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2012-08-14 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Understood. [At least the clinic is smart enough to stock extra clothes around for emergencies. It's not as if they aren't free.] I'll just be a minute then.
corrinesbell: (can't save anyone)

[personal profile] corrinesbell 2012-08-14 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[It doesn't matter how long the minute is. Sheena will go on forcing herself not to lose balance and pitch forward onto the floor until Raine comes back.]
wise_maiden: (on comes the panic light)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2012-08-14 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Raine knows how to get around the clinic in short order anyway, and it's hardly busy, so she returns with a fresh shirt and bottle of water with a straw - mostly remembering another time how Sheena had difficulty with drinking.] ... Here.
corrinesbell: (i'm listening)

[personal profile] corrinesbell 2012-08-14 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[It isn't nearly so bad this time; she walked here partially under her own power, for one thing. A few sips of water in between Raine's efforts do make her feel a little better.]
wise_maiden: (you've got hungry eyes)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2012-08-14 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eventually, the efforts should pay off enough so that Sheena is able to put on the clean shirt without difficulty, and finally be able to lay herself down. Though not without another healing spell to help.]
corrinesbell: (what you don't know)

[personal profile] corrinesbell 2012-08-14 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Absolutely. Lying down, as soon as she can possibly manage. If not for Raine the shirt would probably be on backwards and she wouldn't care.]

Just tell me I'm not gonna spend the night here.
wise_maiden: (build a casket for my tears)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2012-08-14 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Right now, you need to rest.
corrinesbell: (uh-huh yeah)

[personal profile] corrinesbell 2012-08-14 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...That's a yes, isn't it.

[One mildly-hazy brown eye is giving her a Look.]
wise_maiden: (a closer look at the situation)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2012-08-14 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It means it's too early to say, one way or another. But you will need to eat when you wake up.
corrinesbell: (pillow face)

[personal profile] corrinesbell 2012-08-14 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. [With a hint of, "why would I argue?" Sheena turns so she's on her uninjured side and makes it halfway to curling into a ball before she's asleep.]
wise_maiden: (build a casket for my tears)

[personal profile] wise_maiden 2012-08-14 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[She'll help tuck her in comfortably, giving her a light blanket as the bloodloss probably has her feeling cold.

And it almost seems that not a moment sooner, she's being paged by Frey on the journal. So she steps out of the room, at least, so that she won't wake Sheena up by talking.]