06-04-2021, 01:26 PM
GRAVITAS
This is not his first taste of liberation, but it is perhaps the most permanent.
Gone are the stars, replaced instead by fire.
Even the mane and tail glow, as if doused in flame.
All three of them, untouched by the galaxies that tethered them to the Father.
Baptism by fire, they are reborn. A family unto themselves, orphans in the most spectacular way. (Though he plans still to see to it that the viper dies.)
He emerges in the meadow something entirely different than he’d been the last time he set foot here. (In looks only, really, because there are still a Mother and a Father out in the world who do not deserve the air they breathe, whose blood still course through the children’s veins. They are cursed, the children, and for that he will always resent them.)
Perhaps he should have stuck to the forest, he thinks, especially when someone slams into his hip and a thick layer of diamonds ripples across the skin there. Too late to do any damage to the offending party, unfortunately. He gnashes his teeth, turning his head sharply and stopping just short of sinking them into her flesh.
He’d know those ears anywhere.
“Oh, are we buddies now?” he asks. But he obliges, side-stepping a few feet and shaking his head with that same slanted smirk.
Gone are the stars, replaced instead by fire.
Even the mane and tail glow, as if doused in flame.
All three of them, untouched by the galaxies that tethered them to the Father.
Baptism by fire, they are reborn. A family unto themselves, orphans in the most spectacular way. (Though he plans still to see to it that the viper dies.)
He emerges in the meadow something entirely different than he’d been the last time he set foot here. (In looks only, really, because there are still a Mother and a Father out in the world who do not deserve the air they breathe, whose blood still course through the children’s veins. They are cursed, the children, and for that he will always resent them.)
Perhaps he should have stuck to the forest, he thinks, especially when someone slams into his hip and a thick layer of diamonds ripples across the skin there. Too late to do any damage to the offending party, unfortunately. He gnashes his teeth, turning his head sharply and stopping just short of sinking them into her flesh.
He’d know those ears anywhere.
“Oh, are we buddies now?” he asks. But he obliges, side-stepping a few feet and shaking his head with that same slanted smirk.
@[Anuya]