Like A Damn Sociopath | Day 4 | Bubby vs Mauve/Robin
Jul 13, 2021 21:47:26 GMT -5
Post by d4 Panda Scope [Gayton] on Jul 13, 2021 21:47:26 GMT -5
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I think it was the thuds sustained vibrations shaking my ear drums. Or maybe it was as simple as the blood that dulled my sword, but I was cursed still beyond a the quiver of my bottom lip. Why? It was a beast built to murder me. I knew it wasn’t real. I knew it was born with the sole goal of bringing youth to death. But still, it felt real. It felt as though life had slipped through the cracks of reality and I’m the one who shoved it through.
First it was guilt, but then it was fear. I knew for the first time that I was just as capable of killing as I was of dying. I looked to Bellamy, and thought of his words from earlier teetering on kind. I looked to Liara and saw only the construct of her I’d built in my head, protective and caring rather than cunning and malicious. If I really was capable of murder, I was terrified I’d have to do it to them.
I couldn’t.
So the game makers called a feast. It’s as if they were offering me an out. A rare act of kindness from literal premeditators. So without any objections I followed Liara and Bellamy, stalking silently to the hiking trail. And I fell behind. A little at a time.
And then eventually I couldn’t see them anymore. Was I doing them a favor? Or myself? The trail wasn’t safe, so I stepped off and fell into the trees. The feast wasn’t somewhere I was interested in going.
So I faded into the woods and I sat. Hours go by, and eventually the sun fades and the anthem blares. Chad Chapman.
Time felt still. As though I was trapped in my guilt. But eventually, dark skies broke into purple and I had had enough of sitting and waiting. “Please let me have today,” I whispered to the gamemakers. I knew they wouldn’t.
So as the sky started to lighten up, and I was anything but surprised when an all too familiar, sinister laugh crept uninitiated into my ears. The sound carved the image of Mauve’s teeth ambushing me with an unsettling smile.
I was a coward, sure. But never an idiot. So I booked it as fast as I could through the woods and back onto the trail. But somehow, this b-word was way faster than me and as I reached a clearing she slides out from a tree trunk in front of me, not even short of breath. “Boo.”
It was almost seductive as though she were flirting with the blood beating through my heart.
“Mauve!” I exclaimed, “I’m so glad it’s you. I was worried someone else was coming for me. I was worried, um.. sick about you.”
And as she responded, the boy from six emerges from just behind her. In my flurry and panic I couldn’t remember his name, but I’m sure I knew it.
“Mauve, look out!” Little did I know he was expected company as I thrusted my sword, amateurly towards him.
[Bubby attacks Robin with Sword]
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