Once meaningless, I lived my life for duty and nothing else. Loyalty above love, I told myself. With love came purpose—a strength I had not understood. There are things… things you can accomplish when you love unconditionally. Knowing that… I must follow my own path.
Forgive me. “I’m laying down the sword,” she said to the voice in her head, the one that wouldn’t cease, the one that seemed to understand all that she did not. Uncharacterically, she smiled. Her hand lifted, once more erecting the barrier. But this time her eyes didn’t glow as brightly. No, when the surge of power hit, she held on the hilt in her hand.
I know you, another voice argued in her head against what Eros said as the attack struck the invisible wall… as it cracked… ruptured… shattered… and struck her in the chest. I know you... And yet she smiled, jaw flexing against the pain. A cry left her as she hit the ground, shifting just in time with what energy se had left to avoid hitting Seph. Her body rested when it stopped, almost crumbling. And then an exhale of pain, a crack in her voice, before she spat blood again—almost unable to find breath in the liquid that flooded one lung. Her eyes closed against the strain; and yet her grip tightened on the hilt of her blade. Still… she smiled.
She hadn’t been wasting time talking, no.
Garnet orbs that dimmed opened to look at Seph. “Listen to me,” she muttered, trying once against to erect the barrier over the hole in her lung—stave it off. She didn’t know if it would work; however, often… her gut was the thing that saved her when logic failed entirely. “Listen…” she muttered again, this time insisting.
Another exhale escaped as she fought against the agony in her muscles, her bones, against pain she had not been familiar with in a very long time. Her eyes shut and closed; a gasp before she moved to lift herself. And then she tried to meet his gaze, demanding he meet her own. With the last of what she had she forced the blade in her hand to hover in the air, covered in a hum of white energy. In the next breath she sent it to him, to hang in the air in front of him.
“My strength is now yours,” she whispered as if chanting some kind of spell—holy and of the old world, “My sword your shield.” As she spoke runes alit on the blade—moving and shifting. “Become as I would, His right arm. As my proxy…” She took in another breath, forcing the words that would appear on the sword that would now begin to become readable, “Blessed is the Paladin, so rightfully chosen to protect My people against foes that would otherwise not fall.” As she continued, her voice became two—Draco’s and her own; the former in the back of his mind and heard only by the two of them. “Through my Will shall the unyielding fall, and, may they be given the foresight to die with humility against a force greater than their own…”
Hoping he would take what she offered—what she’d planned in the moment of her sacrifice—she allowed her eyes to close fully… collapsing into exhaustion.
Was it good enough…? another voice whispered to the void, to the blackness where the other has cried she not give herself so willingly. A voice that was of another her, another place, hallowed by shadows and swallowed in darkness.
Forgive me. “I’m laying down the sword,” she said to the voice in her head, the one that wouldn’t cease, the one that seemed to understand all that she did not. Uncharacterically, she smiled. Her hand lifted, once more erecting the barrier. But this time her eyes didn’t glow as brightly. No, when the surge of power hit, she held on the hilt in her hand.
I know you, another voice argued in her head against what Eros said as the attack struck the invisible wall… as it cracked… ruptured… shattered… and struck her in the chest. I know you... And yet she smiled, jaw flexing against the pain. A cry left her as she hit the ground, shifting just in time with what energy se had left to avoid hitting Seph. Her body rested when it stopped, almost crumbling. And then an exhale of pain, a crack in her voice, before she spat blood again—almost unable to find breath in the liquid that flooded one lung. Her eyes closed against the strain; and yet her grip tightened on the hilt of her blade. Still… she smiled.
She hadn’t been wasting time talking, no.
Garnet orbs that dimmed opened to look at Seph. “Listen to me,” she muttered, trying once against to erect the barrier over the hole in her lung—stave it off. She didn’t know if it would work; however, often… her gut was the thing that saved her when logic failed entirely. “Listen…” she muttered again, this time insisting.
Another exhale escaped as she fought against the agony in her muscles, her bones, against pain she had not been familiar with in a very long time. Her eyes shut and closed; a gasp before she moved to lift herself. And then she tried to meet his gaze, demanding he meet her own. With the last of what she had she forced the blade in her hand to hover in the air, covered in a hum of white energy. In the next breath she sent it to him, to hang in the air in front of him.
“My strength is now yours,” she whispered as if chanting some kind of spell—holy and of the old world, “My sword your shield.” As she spoke runes alit on the blade—moving and shifting. “Become as I would, His right arm. As my proxy…” She took in another breath, forcing the words that would appear on the sword that would now begin to become readable, “Blessed is the Paladin, so rightfully chosen to protect My people against foes that would otherwise not fall.” As she continued, her voice became two—Draco’s and her own; the former in the back of his mind and heard only by the two of them. “Through my Will shall the unyielding fall, and, may they be given the foresight to die with humility against a force greater than their own…”
Hoping he would take what she offered—what she’d planned in the moment of her sacrifice—she allowed her eyes to close fully… collapsing into exhaustion.
Was it good enough…? another voice whispered to the void, to the blackness where the other has cried she not give herself so willingly. A voice that was of another her, another place, hallowed by shadows and swallowed in darkness.
Sometimes I feel like a girl~... sometimes I don't~
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