11-08-2018, 11:41 AM
The tears ebbed and Kali rubbed her face on Mommy’s shoulder again, drying her cheek and then just curling up pathetically into her embrace. She shook her head about exploring, hadn’t so much as glanced around beyond making sure they weren’t especially likely to get a volcano erupting on them or anything. Not that you could always tell anyhow, not when the gods were really mad.
She didn’t feel much like exploring, though. Sighed and leaned a little harder into Mom, sniffling quietly and keeping her eyes closed. Let everyone else learn the land and make sure it was safe. As safe as it could be, anyhow. There was no such thing as really safe, so what did it matter anyhow? They’d do their best to protect her, and if something bigger and stronger decided to squish them like bugs they’d just die and there was nothing any of them could do about it.
Was death safe at least, or did something even worse wait after it? Maybe it was just quiet and peaceful and nothing could hurt you anymore. That didn’t sound so bad. At least if the safe place was a lie and they all got sick and died the world couldn’t throw anything else at them. Maybe they’d all die together next time and it’d be done, no more screams and sobs and shaking in fear as the world turned against them, no more time warp games that broke people’s hearts and shattered anything delicate and lovely.
Kali shrugged a little at the idea of going out exploring, sighed and closed her eyes tighter and just tried to relax and sleep. Sleep could be nice, so quiet and peaceful. Or it could be nightmare horrors chasing her and hunting her and trying to devour her. Maybe it was all the same anyhow. Bring on the nightmare, then. Didn’t matter anyhow.
She didn’t feel much like exploring, though. Sighed and leaned a little harder into Mom, sniffling quietly and keeping her eyes closed. Let everyone else learn the land and make sure it was safe. As safe as it could be, anyhow. There was no such thing as really safe, so what did it matter anyhow? They’d do their best to protect her, and if something bigger and stronger decided to squish them like bugs they’d just die and there was nothing any of them could do about it.
Was death safe at least, or did something even worse wait after it? Maybe it was just quiet and peaceful and nothing could hurt you anymore. That didn’t sound so bad. At least if the safe place was a lie and they all got sick and died the world couldn’t throw anything else at them. Maybe they’d all die together next time and it’d be done, no more screams and sobs and shaking in fear as the world turned against them, no more time warp games that broke people’s hearts and shattered anything delicate and lovely.
Kali shrugged a little at the idea of going out exploring, sighed and closed her eyes tighter and just tried to relax and sleep. Sleep could be nice, so quiet and peaceful. Or it could be nightmare horrors chasing her and hunting her and trying to devour her. Maybe it was all the same anyhow. Bring on the nightmare, then. Didn’t matter anyhow.