MABEL
She withheld a laugh, a brief snort flowing through her. What an arrogant little prick.
Oh well, it would make the next movement that much more satisfying, that much more redeeming – and despite her ignorance, she’d strive for vengeance, for some stroke of payback of all those left in the wake of Old Gods and their tricks. She didn’t even care that he’d seen the rock, that her duplicity was blown, that her fingers clasping the stone had been seen. Would it be more satisfying, for him to view the blow coming?
She shrugged her shoulders, cool and indifferent, the snide ramparts raging through her fluid, her frame. Her words were cold, unfeeling, an unreachable denizen of glacial ferocity. “I think I prefer this.” Then, the youth launched towards him, raising the arm, the hand holding the stone, intending to careen it right across his cranium, his skull. Pain for pain, ramifications for ramifications.
Oh well, it would make the next movement that much more satisfying, that much more redeeming – and despite her ignorance, she’d strive for vengeance, for some stroke of payback of all those left in the wake of Old Gods and their tricks. She didn’t even care that he’d seen the rock, that her duplicity was blown, that her fingers clasping the stone had been seen. Would it be more satisfying, for him to view the blow coming?
She shrugged her shoulders, cool and indifferent, the snide ramparts raging through her fluid, her frame. Her words were cold, unfeeling, an unreachable denizen of glacial ferocity. “I think I prefer this.” Then, the youth launched towards him, raising the arm, the hand holding the stone, intending to careen it right across his cranium, his skull. Pain for pain, ramifications for ramifications.
I bare my teeth
and stretch my claws out
and stretch my claws out
