DEIMOS
ache first, but then let the cuts close
spit out the blood
spit out the blood
Unaware of the sudden melancholic edges, save for that brief conversation he’d had with Zavien after the latest festival, he simply took things at face value – given it was all he had to go on. Her silence didn’t wholly pervade and materialize into the enigmatic quandaries flickering through his mind, so he let it go, head tilting and brows furrowing slightly when she brightened, only waiting for whatever she needed to see.
Which, inevitably, would end up being fire – a wiser choice than the potential of him leeching and draining life from the surrounding area. With a singular nod, his gaze fixated just ahead, along the sky, where there was nothing soaring by or seething through, and he took a long, slow breath. Concentration and focus honed in on the incantations rampaging through his veins, and with a fierce, seditious splendor, the flames sprung to life yards upon yards away from them – neither dangerous nor consuming – but there just the same.
Wild, vicious, and untamed, save for the control and mastery he had over them, the inferno sparked and swelled, shaped into configurations and images at his behest: a dragon, with flaming wings, a whirlwind of ambitious tide jaguars, a flicker of boastful wyrms.
Which, inevitably, would end up being fire – a wiser choice than the potential of him leeching and draining life from the surrounding area. With a singular nod, his gaze fixated just ahead, along the sky, where there was nothing soaring by or seething through, and he took a long, slow breath. Concentration and focus honed in on the incantations rampaging through his veins, and with a fierce, seditious splendor, the flames sprung to life yards upon yards away from them – neither dangerous nor consuming – but there just the same.
Wild, vicious, and untamed, save for the control and mastery he had over them, the inferno sparked and swelled, shaped into configurations and images at his behest: a dragon, with flaming wings, a whirlwind of ambitious tide jaguars, a flicker of boastful wyrms.
watch your body pull itself back together
then let your soul do the same
then let your soul do the same
