Melita
they should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive
of the women they burned alive
Her eyes went to the kittens first; little things rescued multiple times now. Then the gilded gaze flickered back up to him, alive but not well, and she tucked the sigh residing in her chest away. She didn’t know what else to do.
There was no hesitation as she wrapped her arms around him though, aiming to keep him together in the trembling notions, in the pain and agony, in the throes of calamity he’d been forced to reside within. His words were understandable nuances, another form of torture Shaju had inflicted upon him for who knew how long. Until he recovered? Until he forgot?
But that was the thing – who could pretend it didn’t happen?
They’d all seen the muzzle. They’d all seen the results.
“You have nothing to be sorry for,” she murmured, veracious and vehement. Melita didn’t let go, strong and enduring and formidable for both of them, wishing she could take it all away. She couldn’t, and it was there to stay for some time, some hours, some eons. But she was there, physical and tangible, until whenever. “Do you want something to drink?”
There was no hesitation as she wrapped her arms around him though, aiming to keep him together in the trembling notions, in the pain and agony, in the throes of calamity he’d been forced to reside within. His words were understandable nuances, another form of torture Shaju had inflicted upon him for who knew how long. Until he recovered? Until he forgot?
But that was the thing – who could pretend it didn’t happen?
They’d all seen the muzzle. They’d all seen the results.
“You have nothing to be sorry for,” she murmured, veracious and vehement. Melita didn’t let go, strong and enduring and formidable for both of them, wishing she could take it all away. She couldn’t, and it was there to stay for some time, some hours, some eons. But she was there, physical and tangible, until whenever. “Do you want something to drink?”
because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life
to bring a whole wildfire to life
