05-30-2022, 03:36 AM
AESIOR OPHELES
✯ — it just sucks to try and explain
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Here he was again, at the edges of a territory he'd called him years ago. And now ... now everything hurt in the worst way, like a rotten wound freshly treated. His body trembled, each paw step it took to bring him here just as agonizing ad it had been to leave the first time. It hurt even worse now that he knew that there weren't familiar faces to welcome him home and ask how his journey had been, no children asking him what he'd brought back for them.
Suddenly, his pelt itched and scratched as different kinds of blossoms and blooms appeared through it without control as his body shook and tears steadily dripped down his face. Thyme, pink camelia, begonia, willow branches and fully blossoming buds burst into existence, the strongest of all being yellow roses that all but sprouted their tendrils of thorns around his throat, a rather fitting representation for the grief and sorrow inside of him.
He'd been meaning to return home for so long, he'd been back once and had discovered the abandonment, his own memories and broken heart chasing him away too quickly to have done any of this. Looking over the land, his chest heaving with sobs the Grim struggled to suppress, legs shaking too fiercely to step forward. His mouth opened and closed, forming words he could never speak, forming the names of the missing denizens. What he wouldn't give to have it all back, even just one of them. He was terribly greedy, he didn't think just one would be enough, after all, he had sethiram once again, but his heart still yearned for the rest of them.
Coughing and coughing as his sobbing messed with his ability to breathe, collapsing into hiccups and seemingly endless tears, his lungs screaming at him as the taste of blood costed his tongue and dizzy pounding claimed the emotionally rattled brain of his. Barely managing to Brace himself at the top of the hill he'd crested, wiping at his mouth as he let the waves of grief crash over him. This was only the border and he was already falling apart at the seams, and God damnit, he wished he was drunk and pushed back in time. What he would have said to Arlo, if given half the chance other than the one night they spent curled up, Arlo comforting his drunken self. Would he return if he was to get that drunk again? Would he ... ever return? He knew that answer already. He knew it to his very bones.
Shaking his head as he came to a sputtering halt after all but sliding down the hill, his fur ruffled and all of the memories coating him and suffocating any chance of reasonable thought. He didn't think it would have affected him this much, he didn't think he would be this badly unprepared for this. Body all but collapsing into a pile of limbs cast askew and head drooping, suddenly all awkward angles and dripping of grief and sorrow, sitting there for the longest time as he tried to gather his composure and his thoughts. He'd come here to gather his belongings and most importantly his forge, and to lay to rest Graves for the missing; he didn't know if they lived or died, for their shadows had not come before him even while traveling this land. This was something he felt that he had to do.
Suddenly, his pelt itched and scratched as different kinds of blossoms and blooms appeared through it without control as his body shook and tears steadily dripped down his face. Thyme, pink camelia, begonia, willow branches and fully blossoming buds burst into existence, the strongest of all being yellow roses that all but sprouted their tendrils of thorns around his throat, a rather fitting representation for the grief and sorrow inside of him.
He'd been meaning to return home for so long, he'd been back once and had discovered the abandonment, his own memories and broken heart chasing him away too quickly to have done any of this. Looking over the land, his chest heaving with sobs the Grim struggled to suppress, legs shaking too fiercely to step forward. His mouth opened and closed, forming words he could never speak, forming the names of the missing denizens. What he wouldn't give to have it all back, even just one of them. He was terribly greedy, he didn't think just one would be enough, after all, he had sethiram once again, but his heart still yearned for the rest of them.
Coughing and coughing as his sobbing messed with his ability to breathe, collapsing into hiccups and seemingly endless tears, his lungs screaming at him as the taste of blood costed his tongue and dizzy pounding claimed the emotionally rattled brain of his. Barely managing to Brace himself at the top of the hill he'd crested, wiping at his mouth as he let the waves of grief crash over him. This was only the border and he was already falling apart at the seams, and God damnit, he wished he was drunk and pushed back in time. What he would have said to Arlo, if given half the chance other than the one night they spent curled up, Arlo comforting his drunken self. Would he return if he was to get that drunk again? Would he ... ever return? He knew that answer already. He knew it to his very bones.
Shaking his head as he came to a sputtering halt after all but sliding down the hill, his fur ruffled and all of the memories coating him and suffocating any chance of reasonable thought. He didn't think it would have affected him this much, he didn't think he would be this badly unprepared for this. Body all but collapsing into a pile of limbs cast askew and head drooping, suddenly all awkward angles and dripping of grief and sorrow, sitting there for the longest time as he tried to gather his composure and his thoughts. He'd come here to gather his belongings and most importantly his forge, and to lay to rest Graves for the missing; he didn't know if they lived or died, for their shadows had not come before him even while traveling this land. This was something he felt that he had to do.
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