MABEL
What an intriguing way to talk about trauma and death: flippant, almost indifferent, as if it didn’t really matter. Or maybe it did, if her conversation was anything to go by – Mabel wasn’t sure, and there was only an arch to her brow now as she envisioned the woman swallowed by a landshark. Gone, likely, in the blink of an eye. “How – how would you kill one?” Considering Mabel had lived here all of her life, and hadn’t heard of many successful ventures.
Oh. Edy. She should’ve known. Hadn’t that name come along before, when she was younger, before she’d Ascended, while toiling in fields that wouldn’t grow? While tending to livestock that grew steadily weaker? “Didn’t you rule here, once?” Not snarky, not irreverent, but curious. Nosey. Inquisitive. Looking for a distraction from the water rippling around.
Not that it mattered, when the bluntness flickered through anyway. The younger Ascended flinched, and then turned her eyes downward again, staring at the packages in her arms. “Yes.” Turning over and over and over, splashing, exhaustion not coming, but everything else emblazoning – the sun, the sea spitting her out, the waves churning because she couldn’t hold onto anything until her body simply gave in. “And very slowly.” A long, painstaking wait.
Oh. Edy. She should’ve known. Hadn’t that name come along before, when she was younger, before she’d Ascended, while toiling in fields that wouldn’t grow? While tending to livestock that grew steadily weaker? “Didn’t you rule here, once?” Not snarky, not irreverent, but curious. Nosey. Inquisitive. Looking for a distraction from the water rippling around.
Not that it mattered, when the bluntness flickered through anyway. The younger Ascended flinched, and then turned her eyes downward again, staring at the packages in her arms. “Yes.” Turning over and over and over, splashing, exhaustion not coming, but everything else emblazoning – the sun, the sea spitting her out, the waves churning because she couldn’t hold onto anything until her body simply gave in. “And very slowly.” A long, painstaking wait.
Let's go to war to make peace
Let's be cold to create heat
Let's be cold to create heat
