How evergreen, our group of friends // bad blood day 2

you are vindicated for just a moment as you realize that you have gone completely apeshit on the snakes that were before you. its hard, to realize that you are something different and difficult all in the same body. you cant believe you have gotten yourself in this mess, but at the same time, you can. you could have simply let the girl that had been reaped before you go in, but no, this for some reason, spoke to you. you wanted more in life than to live in the shadow of men that would not even give you the decency to think of you as an equal.

you wanted to show them just how not to cross you, and then let that live on for other girls to see, even if you died here. your legacy would go on for ages to come.

you do end up realizing that you can step away from the corpse that you had repeatedly stabbed into nothing. everyone else seemed to be slightly weary of you, and honestly, they should be. you had shown them exactly why you were a career, and that was more than enough to set them straight and follow suit. you didnt have to be the example, you wanted too.

time had passed and you had begun to wind down. you watched as tommy had been up to something else with the mutt corpse. you searched the area for things that could be useful, all the way up until you had found some sort of weird pill that apparently could maybe help with the searing feeling that had been travling through your bloodstream. you dont think about it too much, because you dont want to think about it. you do remember stabbing your spear deep into the snakes, and you do remember the hissing for just a moment before you realize that everyone is sitting and watching you now.

you are sort of bombarded by a question, but then you realize that xaa was just being xaa in this moment. she had already asked you this, and while you didnt want to answer truthfully, you figured that at this point, who gave a shit. if you were going to die here, then so be it. you might as well be able to say that you were honest and true.

"im still waiting for my pill to kick in to be honest." you had taken it, what felt like, forever ago, and you did not think anything more of it. it seemed like everyone else was starting to come down from the adrenaline, which meant that xaa was ready to shake the dice all over again.

"i would agree with you will usually..." you give xaa a soft smile. "it really is an interesting game to play." you smirk for a moment before realizing that there was more here for will then you realized. you could have probably egged it on a little more, but watching others squirm? that was something that you enjoyed more than stabbing and watching the life drain out of their eyes.

"we could always just play kill kill kill too. though, i dont think that would really have a fun ring to it." you are suggesting, just to help take all of the attention off of will and put some of it on yourself. you knew how to read the room well enough, and you could tell that a part of them had felt a certian type of way about the whole scenario. "mate date decapitate? uhhh... im sure there are other things that we could call this game." you are doing just enough talking to keep everyone's attention.

you are pacing yourself just enough. you stand up, grab water from the stream and then come back at look at tommy for just a moment. you are curious to see what he is creating. it seemed to be something intricate, you could at least tell that much from a quick cursory glance. you wondered just how much more you could watch him go before xaa had commanded your attention so you could spill exactly what you had told her a couple hours before.

you are thinking about your father, and probably how he wished that one of the snakes would have bitten right between your eyes or something. you couldnt help but scowl at the water for just a moment as you wished that one of these mutts could find its way out of the games and find him. just to make him suffer too. it was not fair, that he treated you like you were some sort of rag doll girl that couldnt handle the "seriousness" of being a career like other men in two. the very thought made you want to actually vomit, as well as take the spear that was in your hands earlier and shove it straight into his genitals. you were sure that he wouldnt appreciate that, and you were okay with that.

that monster did not need any of your sympathy.

you took a deep breath and came back to reality. the smell of the cenote was different from the forest that you had walked through. you wished that you could have done anything else then walk through that dreaded place. however, your nose was safe now, and so was the rest of your allies. they all had worked hard enough, and while the GM's might have gone easier today, it did not mean that they would mess around come another game day.

their had to be blood.

"you really do seem to have an eye for detail tommy." you offer to him as you drop one of those iodine tablets into the bottle you carry full of water and shake it around vigorously. you do not feel parched at this moment, your skin almost radiating with some sort of dewey moisture. you place the bottle in your pack and look back up as tommy has already outfitted a glove out of the snake corpse that you had mangled hours earlier. "those are pretty, i have to admit." you smile. "anyway, back to fuck marry kill!" you are just awake enough to give a little laugh before you look intensely at xaa and think about what she had shared with you before. "are you gonna tell will what you told me yesterday too?" you are full of life all of the sudden.

the antidote must really be working.