11-15-2025, 04:40 PM
harrowed
The second light Harrowed faced in the labrynth ended up being salvation rather than more torture, though the pale stallion finds little relief in realizing he is back in Beqanna. This may mean the trials are over but exhaustion settles so heavily upon him he cannot bring himself to rejoice whatsoever. The intoxicating scent of fear is no longer here so he assumes the others have scattered or are still battling their own demons.
If they experienced as much despair as he did, the bodach would have a feast unlike any other, and yet Harrowed doesn't linger. He takes on the singular focus of getting off the mountain, stumbling and distracted down the slopes as he thinks of his family and the driving need to check on them. To make sure those were just nightmares and not those he loved trapped in that terrible place.
A day is beginning overhead which feels wrong. He should at least have the relief of night, of pretending the world wasn't quite ready to move on until he found himself again. But it doesn't. It pushes on without mercy and Harrowed's desire to find his parents and brother cannot win over this level of exhaustion. He collapses just within a copse of trees and sleep claims him with a force he has never experienced.
If they experienced as much despair as he did, the bodach would have a feast unlike any other, and yet Harrowed doesn't linger. He takes on the singular focus of getting off the mountain, stumbling and distracted down the slopes as he thinks of his family and the driving need to check on them. To make sure those were just nightmares and not those he loved trapped in that terrible place.
A day is beginning overhead which feels wrong. He should at least have the relief of night, of pretending the world wasn't quite ready to move on until he found himself again. But it doesn't. It pushes on without mercy and Harrowed's desire to find his parents and brother cannot win over this level of exhaustion. He collapses just within a copse of trees and sleep claims him with a force he has never experienced.