Deimos
Deimos could never be described as an optimist; those words were for those who still curated encouragement and auspicious endeavors from the world. He’d seen and experienced far too much to designate sanguine possibilities upon Caido – even when they’d been held within peaceful remnants.
So when the letters began arriving, he wasn’t wholly surprised. It seemed like the rush and crush of the inevitable; something sly or sinister or suspicious wafting up through the eaves all over again. He’d been there for the forced slumber and the strange lights, but not for the monster held at bay in the desert. Nor for a disappeared herald – because that was bound to signify a level of power and dominion they’d yet to cross.
More or less, it wound that usual trepidation around his soul like a noose. What more was to come this time? Another war? Another invasion? Another tide to turn, another region to fall apart? His mind could concoct and fathom a limitless bounty on ominous directions, each worse than the last.
Instead of falling into it, he braced; made notes. Words flying across parchment, copying and outlining, trying to find where senses and connections could be made.
So when the letters began arriving, he wasn’t wholly surprised. It seemed like the rush and crush of the inevitable; something sly or sinister or suspicious wafting up through the eaves all over again. He’d been there for the forced slumber and the strange lights, but not for the monster held at bay in the desert. Nor for a disappeared herald – because that was bound to signify a level of power and dominion they’d yet to cross.
More or less, it wound that usual trepidation around his soul like a noose. What more was to come this time? Another war? Another invasion? Another tide to turn, another region to fall apart? His mind could concoct and fathom a limitless bounty on ominous directions, each worse than the last.
Instead of falling into it, he braced; made notes. Words flying across parchment, copying and outlining, trying to find where senses and connections could be made.
we exhume our enemy's bones
we are battling, hungry beasts
we are battling, hungry beasts
