don't worry mother,
your daughter is a soldier
Oh he hears her, it’s evident in the way he slips from the branches, still unused to the form he finds himself in. No longer the wall of a man, but a lithe graceful predator of the skies. At least Kiada has that advantage. Her wingspan is larger, her body is bigger, and she’s a beast of a creature meant for breaking bones rather than sweeping fish from lakes and rivers.
Only she’s never used it against those she loves.
Instead, the blight doesn’t care. The blight sees him as a means of spreading the roses, of giving her body back to her, and she’s pissed. She almost caws happily when she hears his booming voice though their bond, a demand. Ah, but he’s not in the position to make demands.
And instead of any words coming from her side of the bond, all she sends is dark, blustering laughter toward him. Enough? Never. It was never going to be enough. For all that she has suffered in her life, she needs to take it out. And she has a target painted here as her taking grasp and pull, lifting feathers and tearing flesh. It sends a thrum of happiness within her at the sensation.
But he twists, and he has the advantage of his smaller form to attack her. But training with Jigano had taught her a thing or two, and when he shifts back with the thorns in his talons, she dives through the brambles and branches, coming away with pine stuck to the blighted bits of her beak and her chest. And she hopes her weight and gravity gives her enough of a distance between them before she circles to take him head on in the clearing.
It’s never enough, Deimos. She puts it simply. Her voice almost mocking, dark, tainted, so unlike her as her large wings beat against the winds. Oh, she wouldn’t let him stick that thorn in her until she said what she wished to. What am I worth to you? Am I worth knowing about this secret? Am I worth enough to be a part of anything you do? You and Amalia run off to fight for spires and wars and you leave me back home. Never involved. She mocks.
It isn’t really her, deep down, but the blight within her knows where to strike hard.
I told you I needed and wanted a purpose. But... I may have just found it. She snickers, diving again for him.
Only she’s never used it against those she loves.
Instead, the blight doesn’t care. The blight sees him as a means of spreading the roses, of giving her body back to her, and she’s pissed. She almost caws happily when she hears his booming voice though their bond, a demand. Ah, but he’s not in the position to make demands.
And instead of any words coming from her side of the bond, all she sends is dark, blustering laughter toward him. Enough? Never. It was never going to be enough. For all that she has suffered in her life, she needs to take it out. And she has a target painted here as her taking grasp and pull, lifting feathers and tearing flesh. It sends a thrum of happiness within her at the sensation.
But he twists, and he has the advantage of his smaller form to attack her. But training with Jigano had taught her a thing or two, and when he shifts back with the thorns in his talons, she dives through the brambles and branches, coming away with pine stuck to the blighted bits of her beak and her chest. And she hopes her weight and gravity gives her enough of a distance between them before she circles to take him head on in the clearing.
It’s never enough, Deimos. She puts it simply. Her voice almost mocking, dark, tainted, so unlike her as her large wings beat against the winds. Oh, she wouldn’t let him stick that thorn in her until she said what she wished to. What am I worth to you? Am I worth knowing about this secret? Am I worth enough to be a part of anything you do? You and Amalia run off to fight for spires and wars and you leave me back home. Never involved. She mocks.
It isn’t really her, deep down, but the blight within her knows where to strike hard.
I told you I needed and wanted a purpose. But... I may have just found it. She snickers, diving again for him.
KIADA
No permission needed for power play!
Feel free to use magic/force on Kiada, without killing her <3
