ISAR
Arm yourself
He saw her from a distance, a delicate silhouette in the drifting smoke and heat haze. Hunger drove him to approach even before a sliver of sanity whispered of other implications, reminding him that he had been craving more than an end to hunger when he approached Dygra.
Family... That was a sister, over there. Had to be. How else could she survive the churn of lava? The unimaginable heat, the crushing weight of molten rock closing around her – a shudder passed through him in sympathetic understanding of what it had to feel like.
Like a feral dog, starved and wary in equal measure, he drew closer. A shade of the arrogant man he used to be, he came to hover on the other side of the Lava pit. Just standing there, staring down at the woman.
Words eluded him. What was the right way of expressing this desire to approach, to be close, to crawl in beneath her skin and melt together in a perfect union that would never be parted again? 'Hi, we are kin. Let me share your everything, as I will offer everything I am for you'...
Was that coming on too strong?
Family... That was a sister, over there. Had to be. How else could she survive the churn of lava? The unimaginable heat, the crushing weight of molten rock closing around her – a shudder passed through him in sympathetic understanding of what it had to feel like.
Like a feral dog, starved and wary in equal measure, he drew closer. A shade of the arrogant man he used to be, he came to hover on the other side of the Lava pit. Just standing there, staring down at the woman.
Words eluded him. What was the right way of expressing this desire to approach, to be close, to crawl in beneath her skin and melt together in a perfect union that would never be parted again? 'Hi, we are kin. Let me share your everything, as I will offer everything I am for you'...
Was that coming on too strong?
Because no one else here will save you
