DEIMOS
ache first, but then let the cuts close
spit out the blood
spit out the blood
The information didn’t surprise him – not with Remi’s powers. The notions that he’d inform him at all caused a slight arch of his brow though – curiosity brimming there along with some residual confusion. “Have you done that to someone before?” Would it be easy, feasible then, to place adversaries into wakes in which they were defenseless, for eternities?
Nodding at the information about Ronin, with a touch of darker humor and a juvenile, self-deprecating grin, he rumbled. “Perhaps I should warn you that not many of my dreams are pleasant.” Thanks to lifetimes of trauma, battlefields, and modicums of survival, the haunting, after-images usually stayed in his mind.
The when sounded like now, and with another nod of his head, he rose from his chair, long strides taking him away from the hearth and towards the desk. “Just a moment then,” was another low tone, opening the drawer to snag at the half-written parchments. Good on his word, the General swept out a few more semblances of sentences, sealing them tightly, before threading his way down the hall, to ensure they were delivered by a trusted constituent.
Upon his return into the room, he suddenly felt very much at a loss. “What do you need me to do?”
Nodding at the information about Ronin, with a touch of darker humor and a juvenile, self-deprecating grin, he rumbled. “Perhaps I should warn you that not many of my dreams are pleasant.” Thanks to lifetimes of trauma, battlefields, and modicums of survival, the haunting, after-images usually stayed in his mind.
The when sounded like now, and with another nod of his head, he rose from his chair, long strides taking him away from the hearth and towards the desk. “Just a moment then,” was another low tone, opening the drawer to snag at the half-written parchments. Good on his word, the General swept out a few more semblances of sentences, sealing them tightly, before threading his way down the hall, to ensure they were delivered by a trusted constituent.
Upon his return into the room, he suddenly felt very much at a loss. “What do you need me to do?”
watch your body pull itself back together
then let your soul do the same
then let your soul do the same
