talons sharp as knives

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