`achromatic` ⇌ for leo
Oct 27, 2015 18:55:46 GMT -5
Post by ∂αмєη on Oct 27, 2015 18:55:46 GMT -5
LEONIDAS CADOGAN EVERITT
With a panicked breath and hurried legs, Leonidas Cadogan Everitt tumbled away from the fight at hand. Blood poured from the gash across his neck, seeping out with every breath he took. His weapon had been dropped long behind him as his good hand clasped onto the wound, trying with all his might to hold his life within him. Like an hourglass filled with sand, blood was leaving his body and ticking down the seconds. Scratches all over his figure ached with unbridled pain, much like the poorly bandaged wound that was his severed arm. Oh, now you decide to hurt. You couldn't have waited until after I can't feel my body? He knew his time was up when he started talking to himself in an internal dialogue.
And yet he had made it away from the violent fight that was going on, his feet carrying him as far as they could before he dropped to his knees in a watery puddle. His body lurched forward to fall onto his hands, but he toppled over to one side when only one hand came out to support him. Tears were stinging behind his eyes, threatening to pour out at any second. And yet he bit his lip tightly, fighting them back with every ounce of strength he still possessed. You can do this, Leo Everitt. You aren't out of this yet. You can be someone. You can be someone important.
It was a blatant lie, but that lie held him together for the moment. The puzzle that was the young, withdrawn boy was being loosely kept whole by all the lies he told. His mind had become a desolate wasteland, once a paradise filled with potential so incredibly vast that not a single mind could handle it. Leo was too smart for his own good, never quite capable of taking part in the moment he existed in as he planned eight steps ahead. He remained in his wasteland with his lies and pain, drowning out the bleak present he lived in. A present where he lie with a missing arm, a gushing wound upon his neck and bloody cuts tearing through his smooth skin. A present with nobody by his side, as he always expected would happen.
Until he heard footsteps approaching him, that was.