where sins remain hidden [feylost, day 1, part 2]
Jun 23, 2023 19:24:53 GMT -5
Post by d4 tati pelotte [azalea] on Jun 23, 2023 19:24:53 GMT -5
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As the world spins in its disorderly fashion, my mind starts to do the same. We have been walking for what feels like an eternity but I'm not sure we have moved at all.
I stop and take a deep breath. The enchantment of this forest provides a place of tranquility, albeit hand in hand with frustration. The verdant greens of the canopy weave themselves together overhead to create a picturesque scene, but there's no point in spending any time trying to remember the sight because everything loops me back to square one. I think that if I close my eyes and think long and hard enough, I'd be transported into another realm entirely by the secrets these trees hush to a whisper with their leaves.
But alas, their roots lace together and everything starts to feel like a labyrinth. Don't get me wrong, of course I'm curious about this place and want to explore it all, but I could really just do with a sit down. As I go to take the weight off my feet, I stumble at the numerous dark burrows which gaze up at me from the ground. It's all so otherworldly beautiful that I can't trust any of it. Five isn't like this.
"Looks like you two didn't even end up with a scratch on you after all that," Quentin says and I roll my eyes. I had tried not to paint a target on my back but simultaneously establish myself as something threatening. I've commit my fair share of crimes back in Five, but murder is on another level, and whilst that's a scary thing to think about - it's necessary. I don't know when it'll happen, if it'll happen, but I think I'm ready regardless.
I have to be.
"It's a bit shit really, though. I'd have happily taken a few more punches if I could see something worth staying for... but I swear I saw a salad bowl. I'm not even kidding. Salad, at a time like this? What a taunt."
I'll probably be kicking myself for not taking it when I'm starving in a few days. Whatever, though, living on the streets raised me right. I'll chew air.
The mysterious forest flickers around me, the trees glowing with strange emblems and symbols which scratch themselves into my eyes. Quentin tries to catch a rabbit to very limited success and I think I'll leave him to it. I'll keep watch or something, I don't know - someone has to be the big, bad one if another person appears.
And I'm just so big and bad. Well, I did break the most important promise I've ever made so I guess that makes sense.
[credit to kaplan]