talons sharp as knives
Arialla Calimeris


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#15

Arialla

Now Arialla starts to lose her sharp tongue. She opens her mouth to snap back at Wessex, though she's running out of retorts. In fact, she's starting to think it's about time to run, to take eagle form or -- no, that monstrous shift of Wessex's could surely out-fly her. But as a dolphin, she might be able to escape into the deeps.

But before Arialla can either speak or run, Wessex's nightmares take hold. Shadowy figures surround Arialla, distorted forms with only fanged mouths visible, mouths dripping with her own blood -- Arialla cries out and drops to her knees, curling in on herself as if cowering will protect her.

please don't take my sunshine away


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Wessex Theskyra
the Wraith
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WESSEX
the wraith
That’s how it feels, Wessex hisses darkly, taking another step forward to loom over the cowering Outlander. “Eight gods and heralds to two. Outnumbered on every side.” Even when it came to demigods, they had herself and Nate, really. Versus Remi and Ronin. And knowing what she knows now, she’s well aware the odds still aren’t in their favor. They never will be.

So she ought to start evening them out. It’s a brutal jump. But war is full of hard choices and the Wraith always swore she’d make them. It would be one less set of talons to rake across someone’s face. One less spying eye in the sky. One less mouthy bitch in Haulani. She pulls the nightmares back and glances down at the Attuned with a single command, backed up by a pitiless steel-blue gaze.

"Run.

It’s the illusion of the opportunity to get away that counts, right?
she's pullin' the trigger
cause it's me and the moon, she says
and i have no trouble with that
Arialla Calimeris


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Arialla

Shaking, half-panicked, Arialla still almost defies Wessex. She still can barely believe the danger she's in -- the danger she's put herself in. Even with Wessex looming over her, part of her wants to just curl in and wait for it to be over. To hope that Wessex will get bored and give up. Arialla's mind is scrambled; she's struggling to see Wessex as a mortal threat, even -- perhaps especially -- after those nightmares. Half of her doesn't believe that Wessex intends to kill her, and the other half doesn't believe that running will save her.

It's the sound of waves crashing on the beach that pulls Arialla out of it, a little. If she can just reach the water, she'll be safe. So, after a moment's potentially fatal hesitation -- but Wessex isn't done playing with her, is she -- she does run, scrabbling in the dry sand, not towards the cover of the dunes but towards the ocean.

please don't take my sunshine away


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WESSEX
the wraith
Wessex might look back on this later and know that it could have gone a hundred different ways; not all of them had to end with Arialla’s death. But even if she were to look back, she probably wouldn’t say she’s sorry about it. Everything else that’s hit the Ascended community is too fresh, too frustrating, and too unbalanced.

So she reacts - impulsive and explosive and reckless. The same kind of energy that will bring Cian’s head to Pacifist Plaza when she just could have kept that secret alllllll to herself and bought the Ascended a bit more time on the Knowtbook front. The kind of energy that killed Edy and Pet and later, Neron - almost. The kind of energy that once released, can’t be reeled back in.

And because this takes place before she loses all her items, The Wraith reaches again for her chakram, gleaming, sharp, and deadly in her practiced hands. Looking down her arm at the fleeing Attuned, she lets it fly through the air as Arialla’s feet start to splash through an incoming wave. She’s aimed for the woman’s back, intending to send her nearly painlessly to Mort with a neatly severed spinal cord.
she's pullin' the trigger
cause it's me and the moon, she says
and i have no trouble with that
Arialla Calimeris


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Arialla

It would be nice, wouldn't it, for Arialla to have a grand death? To face Wessex defiantly in battle -- as if they could ever be equal combatants, as if she had a hope of so much as scratching the Wraith. To get in some action against the people she so hates, something meaningful; to even manage some last words, bitter as the woman she's become. Something that would hang in Wessex's mind and taunt her, outliving Arialla herself.

It would be nice. But Caido isn't nice to Arialla; it never has been. So instead of a dramatic battle, instead of harsh words forced through gritted teeth, Arialla takes a chakram to the back and collapses into the now-bloody surf. She doesn't have time to speak; she doesn't feel anything. That's it. Arialla's time in Caido is over, and isn't that all she ever wanted, really?

- FIN

please don't take my sunshine away


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