09-03-2020, 09:44 PM
echis
“ I will love you until we run out of mornings. Then I will love you in the dark. ”
She stands motionless at the river’s edge, staring at the waters without much notice of the passing time. Has she been here all day? Maybe more than one day. Everything feels so hard to remember. Echis is only certain that she is suffering now and she was suffering then, too. Nothing else exists beyond this except the idea that she could throw herself into the current. Her body is so weak it would pull her under in seconds. She would have the release she thinks she craves.
But some golden thread keeps her tethered to the shore, waiting. It tugs her head down and commands her to eat and survive. Echis hates how hard it is to breathe around the pain of every movement, and yet she obeys this compelling force. She wheezes softly as she grazes and winces each time she bites at a few blades of grass. Was it always this hard to simply exist?
There is a snapping of twigs behind her and she lifts her head quickly despite the way her every nerve screams at her to be still. A feral sort of fear floods her veins and gives her the courage to shy backward as she impulsively begins to cry. The tears come in shaking sobs as she braces herself for whatever reveals itself from the underbrush.
“Please.. Not again..” she mumbles in breathless gasps. She isn’t even sure what she means by the words but they come tumbling from her lips before she can even think of what else to say. Pleading for mercy has become a new kind of normalcy for her, somehow. Little scales push themselves up from her glistening muscles but they flake to the ground a few seconds after. Her body is too exhausted to even try and protect itself, now.
@[Ryatah]