09-10-2021, 07:01 PM
mazikeen
“Oh, I mean it.” Mazikeen tells him with a grin that's hollow to the core, her sharp teeth flashing once again. “Maybe your mother should’ve just let me die, then none of this would have happened.” Not their friendship, not anything that had been born after the eclipse had ended. Mazikeen does not blame Ryatah in the slightest, but it is too easy of a shot to take that she cannot resist it. Twisting herself further and further from the friend that Selaphiel had made and feeling like she can breathe a little easier with the difference.
She is pleasantly surprised when Selaphiel doesn’t back down again, when he meets her gaze and even takes a step forwards. This bravery is not as sweet as his fear, but it’s certainly more interesting. Is there a spine there, under all that ice?
“I’ve always wanted to be stronger than I was. My motives have just changed.” Before, Mazikeen had wanted power and strength so she could protect others from the darkness, from monsters, from whatever came at them. Now she wanted to be those things. Gale’s dreams of chaos are rooted inside of her, clinging to her bones in the shadows he left behind. And that’s the real truth - she isn’t herself anymore at all, she is just an echo of him but she does not yet care about that distinction.
She is pleasantly surprised when Selaphiel doesn’t back down again, when he meets her gaze and even takes a step forwards. This bravery is not as sweet as his fear, but it’s certainly more interesting. Is there a spine there, under all that ice?
“I’ve always wanted to be stronger than I was. My motives have just changed.” Before, Mazikeen had wanted power and strength so she could protect others from the darkness, from monsters, from whatever came at them. Now she wanted to be those things. Gale’s dreams of chaos are rooted inside of her, clinging to her bones in the shadows he left behind. And that’s the real truth - she isn’t herself anymore at all, she is just an echo of him but she does not yet care about that distinction.
