perennial pain // frankel [blitz]

Tansley Lipniki

It is just like any other day. I slip out of the house, gone for hours and slip back in and nobody even says hello. I have started playing a game now, get yourself noticed. I don’t try as hard to hide from them when I go out of the front door but still, even if one of them locks their eyes onto my presence, not even a murmur is stirred. Is it possible that parents could possibly forget they even have a son? Well that must be the case here, if only they didn’t reproduce like rabbits. I wouldn’t be here; there wouldn’t be a reason to not remember me.

Here I am again, ploughing through the deep winter snows of Ratmas, Ripred has really gone overboard with the climate this year. Oh how I prayer that the hibernating animals are tucked up safe. Even if the people are lacking foods during this season, the animals always get forgotten about, they don’t have meals at their own disposal like people do.

The forest is my first destination of the day; it is my daily ritual anyway, to mourn the loss of the great wooden fortresses that have recently fallen. The remaining corpses of their stumps still buried in the ground as a reminder. It is quite sickening what they do here, destroying nature. One day I am going to stop it.

My fingertips prances across the surfaces of the trees as I greet each and every one of them although everything is halted by the presence of another.

A girl wielding a weapon, using it to attack one of the giants…”What are you doing?” I hurry over to her, disgust riddled in my words.