DEIMOS
ache first, but then let the cuts close
spit out the blood
spit out the blood
He shook his head, a clear line of frustration and vexation contorting over his features. “And while we could take it again, we cannot hold it.” It would take time to manifest defenses. They would need stronger people willing and able to fight, rather than immediately give in, when faced with dragons, immortals, and depraved individuals seeking only blood. They would need people who were in it for Halo, willing to stay, and not just a spiraling show of power and might. But his piercing eyes landed on Seren again when she mentioned their pile of enemies - all because they’d stood for things. For consequences to actions. For insisting on their side in the upcoming upheavals. For having boundaries. “There is nothing to stop the Ascended from doing the exact same thing.” The Sword might’ve been potent and powerful, but he was also only one person. This couldn’t be a one-man battle or army.
But in truth, she wasn’t wrong about the lack of allies; he knew it. He even understood it. Even if other lands were assembled with Halo, what would make them want to assist? What did Halo offer? A strong, enduring, independent people – surviving in mountains, in the harsh, unrelenting cold. Leaders and sovereigns had to tend to their own before they could venture anywhere near the isolated world; and even though he had enlisted his assistance time and time and time again into the broader scheme, it didn’t mean others would. He clenched his jaw and fixed his gaze on something else in the distance. “And if the Order came, the Abandoned would not be welcome either.”
He was going to end up staring a long, long road ahead.
Her mention of items nearly had him rolling his eyes. “I do have such an item. But it would have required you to already have a piece of it,” so therefore, a moot point in the past. The other notions, the other semblances, almost made him laugh, but it would’ve been hollowed and empty. “Do you believe your parents would have allowed you to become a bargaining chip? They would have killed us for letting it happen.” Only then did the Sword break through his fortress walls and move, wandering over to one of the stone benches, sitting down on it, and glancing downward. “I do not know many that would be interested in Halo’s plight.” And that’s where it seemed to start and end simultaneously.
But in truth, she wasn’t wrong about the lack of allies; he knew it. He even understood it. Even if other lands were assembled with Halo, what would make them want to assist? What did Halo offer? A strong, enduring, independent people – surviving in mountains, in the harsh, unrelenting cold. Leaders and sovereigns had to tend to their own before they could venture anywhere near the isolated world; and even though he had enlisted his assistance time and time and time again into the broader scheme, it didn’t mean others would. He clenched his jaw and fixed his gaze on something else in the distance. “And if the Order came, the Abandoned would not be welcome either.”
He was going to end up staring a long, long road ahead.
Her mention of items nearly had him rolling his eyes. “I do have such an item. But it would have required you to already have a piece of it,” so therefore, a moot point in the past. The other notions, the other semblances, almost made him laugh, but it would’ve been hollowed and empty. “Do you believe your parents would have allowed you to become a bargaining chip? They would have killed us for letting it happen.” Only then did the Sword break through his fortress walls and move, wandering over to one of the stone benches, sitting down on it, and glancing downward. “I do not know many that would be interested in Halo’s plight.” And that’s where it seemed to start and end simultaneously.
watch your body pull itself back together
then let your soul do the same
then let your soul do the same
