{ high nigh, boreas } caleb vs carbon
Dec 5, 2020 12:19:20 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 12:19:20 GMT -5
her unconditional love scatters,
like cherry blossoms in a fresh breeze,
seen in rippling waves of sunshine
She's shaking as she wakes up, either from nerves or from the cold. The blizzard picks up before the nights even done and it pushes her to the innards once again, the gut of the arena as she finds herself back at the glass lake. Filtered through and through, she finds herself near the end of this snow race once again. Back before everything fell apart and she had everybody - Rene, Andy, Delroy and Luke. Their partners were breathing, and Jacynth had spent her second to last night with her.
Teaching her to hold the knife, because one day she'd have to.
And here she stood, twelve hours later than when the knife had killed Andorra. Left her stranded and alone, the worst things that can happen in the arena. Patricia had talked it out with her back when she seemed to care -- this is where the mistakes are made. You screw your head on tight, find the balance. Lysander hadn't, cashed in her second chance and made it back home, but Caleb isn't that lucky.
She's one lucky girl, sure, but she doesn't have a second chance. The easy part is over, the seven days of just making it through and pretending it'd end and the curtains would draw back. Perform good enough and they'd let you home, and then she killed Andy.
Completely and entirely, without a doubt. Caleb's been convincing herself from the start that there's an easy way out, and there was. For the dead ones. Andy ripped the bandaid off and it still burned seeing Delroy's face after his that night. Bright eyed and wide smile, she couldn't keep it together these days. She'd thrown up under the rock and cried for him, rubbed her nose sore and sobbed for the only promise still standing.
Delroy found his exit, and left her behind.
In the morning, she begged to find somebody for once. Mulling it over as she walked through the glass lake -- it was warmer than the tundra had been, near manageable again. The girl from eight was dead, Iris who she'd never met, and so was Amelia Hale. All four of the dead were terrifying, strong in ways Caleb couldn't begin to understand. It sunk in her gut, if she couldn't kill them, how could she kill the ones left?
Not like Andy, he only hurt her once, and it stung each time she walked on it. Like he was trying to tell her something, keep her awake, keep her moving when he hadn't. One was Shy, obviously, the one person who'd done this all before and could only do better; just what the fuck. How could she even compete with that, how is it fair? A Career finalist coming back for seconds with five years of work experience, and she's held a knife for six days.
"I'm so fucked."
And there was Piper Shaye, the girl from ten, her brother was killed by the only career left and Caleb shook it off. She was Luke's partner, couldn't be older than herself and shit- the capitol wanted drama. It'd be Shy and Piper, over bad blood that's yet to be spilled. Which left Caleb, and the fourth -- Carbon Chem? The boy from twelve, last name on her list and she hasn't seen him a single time.
Interacted with him a single time - hell, who is this guy? It stumbles in her throat, mulling it over as she straightens her ear muffs. Plays with her dreads, fixing her hair and continuing to the center. From the edge of the line, she leaves behind her most desperate hour and keeps going. That's what it's all about, right? You kill the only person who cares about you at the age of fifteen, and then you walk for six hours.
Get chased by some wolves, trip into a foxhole.
Cry to Boreas, "oh, it's you!" Shit, her eyes light up as she feels the wind change. From the east, in walks "dude, I fucking called it!" Carbon Chem, semifinalist. She's near delusional at this point because it doesn't frighten her as much as anything else has -- it's the choke point! The point where it matters, she's met so many other kids and watched all but two of them die. Somewhere in the arena, Piper and Shy are fighting it out over some cowboy twink and here she is, with Carbon Chem.
The last name on the list, she knows nothing about him.
"For a second I thought you got lost or something," she remembers being here with Andorra and the snow man, meeting Little and leaving Amelia. Leaving Jacynth here, and Marsh and Yuki, and she's the last one standing. She meets him here, the boy with no trails, and she's trying so hard to keep it together. All or nothing, right?
Not much of a choice, "haven't seen you yet!"
she spreads her wings and flies away,
like vanishing sakura
leaves at the end of spring
"cherry blossoms, princess sakura ii" by ronald j. chapman.
like vanishing sakura
leaves at the end of spring
"cherry blossoms, princess sakura ii" by ronald j. chapman.
[caleb attacks carbon ♥ knife]
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[2054 -- Shallow Cut on Right Bicep -- 3.5 damage]
by_QuMr1NDknife
[2054 -- Shallow Cut on Right Bicep -- 3.5 damage]
rose
knife