i am a tapestry torn | emerson { day 4 }
Dec 5, 2023 13:25:55 GMT -5
Post by eulalie blake 1a 🍒 tris on Dec 5, 2023 13:25:55 GMT -5
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He ventures to the medical wing first, not certain whether it's his aching heart or burnt skin that hurts him the most. All the same, he wants relief for the pain. When he closes his eyes, he is staring down at Jack with a trickle of blood leaving his parted lips, or he's looking at Mac's eyelids as they flutter closed in the fading, amber glow of an artificial sun. Everywhere he glances, he sees death, and it breaks him to know for certain that he has not seen the last of it. Either Wolf or himself will breathe their last breaths in the other's arms, and it feels almost cruel to know their fate cannot be outran. Even if one of them wins this, they will lose where it counts.
Tragedy will catch up to them. It is already walking beside them.
He rummages through the cabinets, knowing that when he regroups with his friend that she's going to waste the majority of her resources on patching him up, but at the very least if he can beat her to it she'll be forced to mend herself in the process. All he wants is for the both of them to be okay, for the exit doors to swing open and for Wolf to spirit them away as she has so often wished to do. Now, with their quartet reduced to a duo, if she asked him to run, Emerson believes that he would. He'd face the ADS if it meant gaining a future with her in it.
But it's too late in the game to be gullible, and he knows he must keep his wits about him. There's a dwindling amount of tributes, and the days from here on out will only grow more intense. He needs to be in fighting shape if he plans to keep either of them safe, himself or her. As frightened as he should feel, his back exposed to anyone who may come lurking around the corner with a dagger, he does not show his fear. At least this way, there is no one to step in the way of danger should it come for him. He has to learn how to face the unknown, the things that go bump in the dark. Soon, there will be no one left to chase away the monsters.
He has to start slaying them where they stand.
With a sigh of relief, Emerson notices a seemingly useful item, and he closes his palm around it.
{ fox }
{ emerson searches the medicine cabinets }
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{ thermometer }
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{ thermometer }
