DEIMOS
His sedition, insurrections, and revolutions had always been quiet, subversive ones; collected and drawn on hushed platitudes and long, winding trails: pathways to conviction and demise. They were measured, calculated, adhered to stoic prosperities, so when others glanced into his eyes, they saw absolutely nothing but the ocean, but the sky, but the damned; unreachable in his blistering factions and fathoms. It was how he wanted it, everything rooted, locked, and secured, away, away, away, so they didn’t look too closely, so they couldn’t see within, so they couldn’t pry open corded and roped denizens, so they couldn’t view or witness the sanction of his cloaks, of his daggers, of his rapacious, destructive vehemence. Only when he’d toppled walls and proclaimed his predilections was it too little, too late, a strike, an assault, a siege, a barrage upon their palisades and castles: his seething ramparts hardly distorted along the plain of sedition and riots, his breath a cool, collected phantom, his presence a means to an end.
There were only a scarce few who he’d even permit to stare back into his void, his soul, and not tear them apart, limb by limb.
He found one on the outskirts of the Bone Bridge – he’d never ventured too deep into these contortions, where the stones were bleached like the dead and decrepit, vulture picked and scavenger searched. The Reaper had half an inclination to peek over the edges of the mist, unhinge and liberate himself on the ghosts of the past, where the unknown buffeted against rocks like a rocky coast, but with another’s presence there, familiar and accustomed, he backed away from the fringe. “Kiada,” he called, nefarious depths lingering on hers, uncertain of how or where they stood now – the rush of the past events an encroaching, pressing weight on the stretch and brawn of his shoulders. Perhaps she was simply dissatisfied, caught because he’d been snared and snagged with the rest of them, forced and forged into an army with no end in sight, with no measures or upheaval to understand. Perhaps she was disappointed in him (likely not the first, not the last), if all her frozen, glacial stares had been counted, pinpointed on his soul like a target on his back. Maybe that would hurt worst of all. Then he didn’t know what else to say – so he left it in the wake of silence, until she told him to leave or inquired or did said anything at all; coming into her presence, her existence, hand reaching to scratch Auni, before settling at the harpy’s side, elbows settled on the bridge.
There were only a scarce few who he’d even permit to stare back into his void, his soul, and not tear them apart, limb by limb.
He found one on the outskirts of the Bone Bridge – he’d never ventured too deep into these contortions, where the stones were bleached like the dead and decrepit, vulture picked and scavenger searched. The Reaper had half an inclination to peek over the edges of the mist, unhinge and liberate himself on the ghosts of the past, where the unknown buffeted against rocks like a rocky coast, but with another’s presence there, familiar and accustomed, he backed away from the fringe. “Kiada,” he called, nefarious depths lingering on hers, uncertain of how or where they stood now – the rush of the past events an encroaching, pressing weight on the stretch and brawn of his shoulders. Perhaps she was simply dissatisfied, caught because he’d been snared and snagged with the rest of them, forced and forged into an army with no end in sight, with no measures or upheaval to understand. Perhaps she was disappointed in him (likely not the first, not the last), if all her frozen, glacial stares had been counted, pinpointed on his soul like a target on his back. Maybe that would hurt worst of all. Then he didn’t know what else to say – so he left it in the wake of silence, until she told him to leave or inquired or did said anything at all; coming into her presence, her existence, hand reaching to scratch Auni, before settling at the harpy’s side, elbows settled on the bridge.
i'm in the mood to dissolve in the sky
