06-19-2017, 09:55 AM
you won’t see me fall apart
you've been here before. It wasn't accusatory, it was a statement. Thorunn knew she wouldn't stand on the border untouched long, kingdoms rarely changed - even as Beqanna did. She felt the shifts from the meadow, she knew what was happening. She didn't understand the breadth of it (whole kingdoms, gone? Whole lands, created?) but it wouldn't have shocked her. She grew up in the Beqanna of old, before these monsters replaced her forefathers.
yes
the smell of dead magma crusting the rise and fall of the hills and jagged crags the black dirt that crunched but yielded beneath her cracked hooves the feel of sulfur on her skin the sting of the acrid air in her lungs...
no
no eight no val no recognizable creatures just the empty expanse of a land that is both fatherless and motherless and sisterless and
alone. always alone.
Thorunn was cursed to bear the cross her father gave her, though it was with childish vigor. She'd be the steadfast warrior he was, she'd follow in his hoofprints, she'd shoulder his responsibilities just as he instructed her to. Covet 2.0, never Thorunn 1.0.
"Things are forever changing in Beqanna," she says, factually. She is always factual in her words, pronounced, punctuated. "I am Thorunn, I didn't catch your name." He didn't offer it, she knows, she is being (what she thinks is) polite.
yes
the smell of dead magma crusting the rise and fall of the hills and jagged crags the black dirt that crunched but yielded beneath her cracked hooves the feel of sulfur on her skin the sting of the acrid air in her lungs...
no
no eight no val no recognizable creatures just the empty expanse of a land that is both fatherless and motherless and sisterless and
alone. always alone.
Thorunn was cursed to bear the cross her father gave her, though it was with childish vigor. She'd be the steadfast warrior he was, she'd follow in his hoofprints, she'd shoulder his responsibilities just as he instructed her to. Covet 2.0, never Thorunn 1.0.
"Things are forever changing in Beqanna," she says, factually. She is always factual in her words, pronounced, punctuated. "I am Thorunn, I didn't catch your name." He didn't offer it, she knows, she is being (what she thinks is) polite.
THORUNN
COVET x LIBRETTE