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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


    [private]  we are slaves to the sirens of the salty sea; jamie
    #21

    we are slaves to the sirens of the salty sea

    He is so different from Ivar, although she knows that could both be categorized the same. Monsters. Beasts. Creatures that are so deeply unlike her. Ivar though, is so certain in his ferocity. He has no qualms of his brutality—even though it likes so prettily hidden beneath all of that beauty. She is lucky, she thinks, in that she has never needed to be convinced of it. She does not mind the danger of putting her life beneath the sharp teeth of the kelpie and has never tried to tell herself that she feels anything more.

    She has never thought that she was capable.

    But Jamie—he is different.

    His teeth are sharp. His darkness profound. But he does not seem to savor it. There is a weakness in the halted breath that rattles his lungs and, were she a predator, she would be turned away by it—or enticed by it in all of the wrong ways. Instead, she finds that it doesn’t matter to her. Not at all.

    Instead, she is fascinated by the theoretical questions he poses to her like he cares about the answer that she might provide him. It stretches her imagination in ways that it has not stretched since she was a young girl. It forces her to think, to consider, to wonder at what is beyond the shadows that tie around her legs and pull her closer to him. To the strange nothingness of being tangled with him, to the weight of it.

    He pulls away and she wonders how she can miss something that she can barely feel at all.

    “Evia,” she says easily, not knowing that there are those who may not want to answer.

    “My name is Evia.”

    She studies the darkness of him, the yellow of his eyes.

    “Can I see you again?”

    How would she find him? She has no idea.

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    #22

    from the destruction, out of the flame

    Evia, she says. And she says it so plainly that it puts a peculiar sort of ache in his chest, in the narrow space at the base of his throat.

    He will carry it like a secret caught between his teeth. Those teeth dripping black with ink. The teeth that he could sink into the flesh of her should he choose to. The teeth, the only tangible thing about him. He reaches out with them, skims them along the soft slope of her shoulder so that she might feel him.

    Evia,” he wheezes and then smiles his sharp-toothed smile. He will let it occupy whatever space it chooses within him. All that empty space where the lungs and the heart and the stomach would go should he have one. He will carry it in the joints and in the bones.

    He drags in a rattling breath and studies her face through the dark. Such a remarkable thing she is. So terribly beautiful. How painful it had been to look at her when she’d climbed out of the water. How he’d hissed and hid his eyes from here. It had burned him to look at her just as it had burned him to look at Beyza, but the sensation had been so horribly different.

    Yes,” he rasps and then tilts his peculiar head, blinking those big yellow eyes. “Whenever you like, Evia, all you have to do is think of me and I will come.

    It’s not true, he knows. He knows that he does not exist because she has imagined him, but he will let them both believe it anyway. He cannot read her thoughts, but there is no harm in letting her believe that a mere thought will summon him.

    you need a villain, give me a name

    Jamie
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    #23

    we are slaves to the sirens of the salty sea

    She feels a strange sensation at the idea of being able to summon him again—at being able to find him so easily by just thinking of him. She doesn’t tell him that she will be always thinking of him. That she will return to the islands and the beaches of Ivar and be thinking of him still. That she will shield the thoughts of the man made of shadows as she lives amongst the kelpie—as she bears him sons and daughters.

    It feels impossible to think he would always come.

    That he would be a constant companion.

    (Would anyone else see him? Or would he exist only in her thoughts?)

    These things plague her, confuse her, and she shifts suddenly, redistributing her weight as if to try and get more comfortable. “Okay,” is all she says instead, flicking her silvery tail against her scaled, sleek haunches. They feel dry, her body thirsting for the water—more specifically the salt water of the sea.

    She wants to stay, she knows.

    Wants to be here with him and his sharp smile, but even that cannot override the primal ned to return to the ocean. She grows irritable, uncomfortable, and she does not hide it well from her pretty face.

    “I will think of you then.”

    She realizes she does not have a name to call him by and chooses to not ask.

    She prefers him like this—in the shadows, in her thoughts. Hers and just hers.

    “Think of me too,” she says with a silvery laugh, with a flash of white teeth.

    And then she turns from him, returning to the water, walking into the depths and leaving.

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