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i don't know why i run away, rosebay - crowns - 02-20-2021 CrownS He moves through the darkness as a pair of glowing eyes with the will-o’-wisps bobbing lazily around him. Their blue flames occasionally illuminate his hip or shoulder before continuing on their lazy orbit. Crowns allows his magic to spread from him as unseen hands, blindly feeling for anything familiar. He occasionally catches the leg of some stranger or brushes up against the scales and fur of unknown things. His breath catches in his throat whenever they escape between his fingers. They were not anything he seeks, though. The boy wonders if he will happen upon Olena or Eight, maybe even Altar or Rosemary. Would they venture into this infinite night as he does? There is a piece of him that would prefer they remain somewhere safe, if he’s being honest, but then he finds Rosebay standing there in the dark nearby. He swallows hard and gently tugs at her mane before his magic recoils and retreats back inside his ribs. Crowns blinks his glowing eyes and waits to see if she will entertain him with her presence once more. Somehow, it doesn’t surprise him that she is the one he stumbles upon here. She had tiptoed to the edge of death with him. She knows what lies beyond this world just as well as he does. A snarl of something off to his left snatches his attention for a moment as the hairs along his neck raise. The yowling almost sounds like words and he finds his legs moving closer to Rosebay before he wills himself to walk. Crowns spreads a dripping wing to drape over her back as he draws near. “It sounds hungry,” he whispers as the glow of his fire briefly lands upon their faces. you got me on my knees; i'm your one-man cult. @[rosebay] RE: i don't know why i run away, rosebay - rosebay - 02-28-2021 Rosebay but in all chaos, there is calculation @[crowns] RE: i don't know why i run away, rosebay - crowns - 03-25-2021 CrownS She doesn’t speak of her mother aloud and he doesn’t pry into her thoughts without invitation. Regardless, whatever Otherworld Straia had been snatched away to remains a mystery to the both of them. And perhaps it’s better that way. Rosebay and Crowns are precisely the sort of fools who would reach into the darkness just to see if they could pluck an answer from it. He wonders what sorts of demons dance behind her eyes whenever he looks down at her. Is she glad to see him? Annoyed he was away for so long? A smile forms across his lips when she breathes her question, then widens when the poison spreads over his tongue like wine. He likes the way it numbs his tongue and makes his entire mouth feel like static electricity. The snapping of a bone draws his gaze from her face for a while as he stares wordlessly into the void. For a short moment, there is silence, and then wet thrashing as meat is torn and chewed. Crowns swallows her poison and thoughtlessly presses a kiss to her temple before stepping closer to the sounds. “Who do you think is hungrier? Us or them?” he asks without looking back to her. There is a soft laugh bubbling into his words as the foxfire seems to jump a little with excitement. He pours heat into the bouncing flames until they begin to hiss and spit in their wild orbiting. “It is a lovely night.” you got me on my knees; i'm your one-man cult. @[rosebay] RE: i don't know why i run away, rosebay - rosebay - 05-21-2021 Rosebay but in all chaos, there is calculation @[crowns] RE: i don't know why i run away, rosebay - crowns - 05-24-2021 CrownS His magic has doled out little morsels of itself to him and held his hand when he wandered near the edge of this world and the next. It served as a safety net and always kept him anchored where it wanted him. But lately, now that his body has matured, it feels like the promise of safety is gone. Instead, his magic has become a claw gently tapping at his bedroom window. It ticks out little requests in timid morse code: Take. Take. Take. But take what? He finds himself circling back to this question often. And the answer comes clicking ou feverishly. Everything. All of it. Then more. He has heard the voice of hunger and learned to speak in its native tongue. Crowns has mastered the art of always being ravenous, of always chasing satisfaction like his ancestors before him. So when Rosebay says she is the hungriest in the room, he only smiles and nods. They will see who is more empty in due time. For now, his limbs twist and pop into talons. His spine pushes up from beneath his skin and splits it into a ridge of glistening scales. When Crowns moves, his shoulders bend the tree branches until they groan fearfully and snap. He becomes a terrible, hulking thing that reaches for the monsters before they can think to claw at him. He plunges ugly hands into their chests just to split them in two as if they were made from wet paper. They are beautiful, but they are disappointing to him. They die as quickly as a light flicks on. And when he spits Rosebay’s poison into their eyes, they only howl in pain before crumpling to the ground and going still. His heart scarcely quickens at all. “We need something sturdier. Something that will teach us to pronounce fear,” he says with his strange mouth and jagged teeth. you got me on my knees; i'm your one-man cult. @[rosebay] RE: i don't know why i run away, rosebay - rosebay - 05-24-2021 Rosebay you and I nursing on a poison that never stung @[crowns] |