We've got the right to live, fight to use it
Marcus huffed a quiet breath at the question, the faintest hint of a smile touching his mouth before it faded again. His gaze shifted back toward the open stretch of tundra beyond the bay, as if half-expecting the wind to carry something with it now that the idea had been spoken aloud. For a moment, he simply listened—to the distant crash of the ocean, to the muted hiss of rain against the invisible barrier, to the low murmur of wind threading through ice and stone, to the faint screams of the storm above the ocean now.
”No.” he admitted, tone even but softer than before. ”Just the stories.”
But saying it didn’t quite settle the feeling that had crept in under his ribs. The kind that didn’t come from anything you could see, but from the suggestion of something just out of reach. From the stories and the ghosts that lingered within them. Marcus shifted his stance, rolling his shoulders slightly as if to shake it off, though his eyes drifted instinctively toward where the Citadel lay far in the distance. ”I think that’s enough for me,” he added, a little wry now, though there was an honesty beneath it. He glanced back at Deimos, expression steadier again. ”Probably time I head back.”
With enough ghost stories to fuel more than a few nightmares.
FIN
”No.” he admitted, tone even but softer than before. ”Just the stories.”
But saying it didn’t quite settle the feeling that had crept in under his ribs. The kind that didn’t come from anything you could see, but from the suggestion of something just out of reach. From the stories and the ghosts that lingered within them. Marcus shifted his stance, rolling his shoulders slightly as if to shake it off, though his eyes drifted instinctively toward where the Citadel lay far in the distance. ”I think that’s enough for me,” he added, a little wry now, though there was an honesty beneath it. He glanced back at Deimos, expression steadier again. ”Probably time I head back.”
With enough ghost stories to fuel more than a few nightmares.
FIN
Marcus
Got everything but you can just choose it
