Sunset to Sunrise {Solo|VT}
Sept 7, 2017 12:35:18 GMT -5
Post by Tom on Sept 7, 2017 12:35:18 GMT -5
District Eleven.
Their homes. Walherich and Raquel had lived somewhere in the agricultural district that stands before him like a stab wound to the gut. He can feel himself being watched, not just by the peacekeepers that they had sent, but by the people of Eleven. Memories of the kind and honest girl that was Raquel blows through his mind. He had slept the night before with her words still in his mind. Finding a reason to go home, that's what she had told him to find. Eleven was cursed with death upon their hands. They've already experienced it time and time again, but he still stands before them as some glare and others cheer. He's learned that people won't like him. It's just how things were, especially when each district lost two souls that would never return home.
Heart beats in his chest as he looks for the home that Raquel lived in. Lost in his mind, he can't feel the sound of his feet upon the ground. He's seen more orchards than he would like to see in a lifetime, but it was the present of living. He got to see the other districts that carry the living and the dead. He's still frightened for being in the district that he tried to wipe out on his own. He hadn't done it though, but he almost killed Raquel and Walherich multiple times. Eyes water as he marches forward with the guidance of a local man.
Officer Moon had told him directions to where he wanted to go with worry in his skin, but a serious tone. An offer to go with him was all Teddy needed to know that he would sneak away for a little bit, it wasn't like they would hunt him down. A lost victor in District Eleven wasn't going to cause any panic, but it was important and he needed to see the people who raised and lived with Raquel. Her strong gaze still burnt into his mind with the sound of his heart hurting against his chest.
The direction leads him away from the justice building that he rather hated the smell of now. Though, he should have been used to it for working in a hospital, but after spending a little more than a week with the salty smell of the sea, everything smelt terrible. The seas were even worse than it. That's when he notices the little girl with dark hair and brown eyes that remind him of the girl that he wished to have known better.
Some things never change, but he does.
He always changing.
His hands shake as he meets the girl's eyes. Scared was the first feeling that came to his mind, even if the girl was young, she still had the blood of Raquel in her skin. If that had anything to say, she could be just as deadly, but he gives a small frown as he tries to speak. Mouth opens trying to come up with words, but he doesn't speak, only shuts it as he pockets his hands into the jeans that he insisted on wearing after the speech.
"P-Pardon me, but are you an Izar?"
There's a moment where he knows that anything can happen. His leg is hidden from the view, but he looks down to it anyways, worried it might scare anyone away. Breath shakes as he breaths in and looks back to the girl who had to be an Izar. The features were similar to what he could remember of Raquel. All he wants to do is cry himself to sleep, but he promised to see their homes. Every single person that he carried. He promised to see them all. All he could do was try to be forgiven, but forgiveness was like the sunset and sunrise.
There was no way of telling when or how it could happen.
Forgiveness is what he wanted, but even he knew that it was near to impossible.
He'd accept the truth of his actions.
He made it.
They didn't.
That was the truth.
Another sunset and another sunrise that they would never see again.
