ultimum vale | {basil/raven} | jb blitz

ultimum vale | {basil/raven} | jb blitz Feb 1, 2016 5:32:57 GMT -5

Post by chelsey on Feb 1, 2016 5:32:57 GMT -5

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BASILANATOLA

Maybe my heart's numb.

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They dribble in one by one. His father shakes his hand, bids him a silent farewell. His mother cries into his shoulder, asking God “Why him?”. His sister doesn’t say anything, but hugs him when he asks her - quite seriously - to bury him next to Roland.

There’s a part of him that feels like he doesn’t deserve this: the chance to kiss his family on the cheeks and tell ‘em he loves ‘em one last time. Who gets to decide how you say your last goodbyes to the people you love, anyway? Who gets to decide if they really are your last goodbyes? Huh? Is it fate? Destiny? God? Because, boy, does he have a problem with Him, right now.

He has half an idea of how Roland felt, now, knowing that death was coming. It’s a heavy something hanging in the pit of his stomach, like a fever he just can’t sweat out. He closes his eyes after Sage leaves the room, while she’s wiping away tears she didn’t want to shed in front of him, and wishes for some kinda miracle.

Raven bursts in the room only seconds after Sage and hurtles herself at him. They are both stars - collapsing, dying, swirling black holes briefly passing by each other in the abysmal space that is their sad, tiny, dark corner of the Universe. He holds on tightly, anyway, like the way Gavin must’ve when he was standing in this spot only a few years ago.

“I need you to come back,” she whispers to him, like it’s a secret she wishes she didn’t have to keep. He chokes out something that sounds like a laugh and lets go of her, knowing he can’t be tethered for too long without pulling her down into the darkness with him.

“I can’t make any promises.”

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