Melita
they should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive
of the women they burned alive
A proverbial hand offered, extended, and then not taken. The inquiry turned into silence, and it felt like a slap in the face.
What part did she even have here? It hurt in ways she couldn’t explain or fathom, piercing and slashing down the columns of her chest, intertwining amidst her ribs. And then nothing all over again – and the rudimentary lifelines she’d harpooned didn’t seem strong enough to endure whatever was occurring. He merely curled in amongst himself, and she was left stranded. “Sorry,” she said quietly; for a myriad of things. For the circumstances he seemed to continually, stupidly, ridiculously mire himself in. For the weight she’d proffered to pick up, that he seemed incapable of relinquishing. Melita had naught else to give, not in this bizarre bedlam, with injured wings, with mysterious facets, with murderous messages, if he wasn’t going to answer. If he couldn’t.
So she and Fangorn strode out, the embers dying and flickering, closing the door behind them, the misgivings starting all over again.
{FIN}
What part did she even have here? It hurt in ways she couldn’t explain or fathom, piercing and slashing down the columns of her chest, intertwining amidst her ribs. And then nothing all over again – and the rudimentary lifelines she’d harpooned didn’t seem strong enough to endure whatever was occurring. He merely curled in amongst himself, and she was left stranded. “Sorry,” she said quietly; for a myriad of things. For the circumstances he seemed to continually, stupidly, ridiculously mire himself in. For the weight she’d proffered to pick up, that he seemed incapable of relinquishing. Melita had naught else to give, not in this bizarre bedlam, with injured wings, with mysterious facets, with murderous messages, if he wasn’t going to answer. If he couldn’t.
So she and Fangorn strode out, the embers dying and flickering, closing the door behind them, the misgivings starting all over again.
{FIN}
because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life
to bring a whole wildfire to life
