side dish // frankel [blitz]
Jun 29, 2017 12:38:40 GMT -5
Post by Gryphon on Jun 29, 2017 12:38:40 GMT -5
McCarthy Balmain
table made by tom <333333
Everyone retreats to the cafeteria for a change of pace from the cool air and grey walls of the gym, sounds of screaming metal--like a preparation for what's to come from object to human--and weapons hitting dummies abruptly replaced with the clinking of spoons and forks and small conversation. It all sets the mood for the unpleasant but inevitable situation we all face.
We're going to die.
But as scissors without remorse cut the strings connecting us with Life, one of us will be the chosen one who gets to keep theirs--but not without it fraying and wearing out from the tension Death puts on it in an attempt to kill them off before they could get a crown placed on their head.
The thought comes and goes quickly, that in spite of this, I hope Life would choose me to be lucky.
But then I remember what I've done and what I've been going through, and once again Death doesn't look so menacing after all.
I get in line, grab a plate, grab some utensils, and go down as I eye the options. Some I got to taste before fire swallowed my home whole, but others are completely different. New. Interesting, but still not very appetizing-looking.
I don't have much of an appetite right now, but I don't want to go back to training without eating something.
Porkchops.
Cranberry cobbler.
Bean and cheese chili.
So many to choose from yet as I'm halfway down the line, I still don't have anything on my plate.
Burgers.
Cookies.
Chicken noodle soup.
"What do I want...?" I ask myself quietly.
The past, my brain replies.
But I won't find it here. Not here, not back home, not anywhere, the past is the past and I must cope with that fact no matter how saddening it is.
How unfair it is.
How hopeless it is.
If only I could.