everyone's just blood in an ice tray { areto
Jul 10, 2021 23:49:03 GMT -5
Post by calla on Jul 10, 2021 23:49:03 GMT -5
A R E T O
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The machete blade is somewhat awkward to hold properly, but she skins the mutt and cleans the meat before wrapping it back in the pelt. She brings the sword down onto the antlers and carves them away, stacks them on the ground like kindling.
It's soothing work, comfortable movements, and it reminds her so much of home that when she shuts her eyes, she swears she can smell the sea. The thunder keeps crashing above them and Areto can hear the way it would roll over the waves and amplify itself, sounding like the roar of a great mighty beast. She remembers being little and hearing the noise carry across the island, then burrowing into her blankets to block it out. She'd shake under the wool of the quilt and her mother would putter in the kitchen and put herbs over the fire for tea.
And her hands still shake now. There's still leftover adrenaline in her system, and even kneeled beside the mutt with her arms halfway slathered with its blood, she still glances over at her allies every time a twig snaps. They've been ambushed twice now by these things, and she's determined not to let it happen again.
wip im about to pass out
It's soothing work, comfortable movements, and it reminds her so much of home that when she shuts her eyes, she swears she can smell the sea. The thunder keeps crashing above them and Areto can hear the way it would roll over the waves and amplify itself, sounding like the roar of a great mighty beast. She remembers being little and hearing the noise carry across the island, then burrowing into her blankets to block it out. She'd shake under the wool of the quilt and her mother would putter in the kitchen and put herbs over the fire for tea.
And her hands still shake now. There's still leftover adrenaline in her system, and even kneeled beside the mutt with her arms halfway slathered with its blood, she still glances over at her allies every time a twig snaps. They've been ambushed twice now by these things, and she's determined not to let it happen again.
wip im about to pass out
