Gale
started under neon lights, then it all got dark
i only know how to go too far
She doesn’t need to speak for him to know her answer - the recoil is enough.
No, she is not enjoying this.
The navy dragon stops its circling, dark claws falling still atop the bloody snow. Only his eyes move now, meeting hers from beneath a pensive frown..
The magician had not known what he was doing when he had broken Mazikeen, but the result had been exactly what he’d wanted at the time. She had become something more entirely on her own once given her freedom, become something better than he could have crafted: full of rage and fury and a hunger to match his own.
There is still hatred now, glittering behind her orange eyes, and rage too, illuminating her skin.
But there is brightness as well. Brightness he had torn out already, because it had made her weak.
She had grown less predictable with each passing day, he recalls, and nearer his most recent death had chafed against his contentment. She’d wanted destruction, and he’d wanted her happiness.
He’d corrected that imbalance the only way he could, choosing Power over weakness, forsaking her for sorcery without limits, and locking his heart away so that next time - this time? - he could kill her without hesitation.
He’d expected to find her as he’d left her. Snarling and vicious until the bitter end, as savage and deadly as when she’d dropped him on the mountainside. He wanted to watch the red-orange fire fade from her eyes, to swallow down her strength and fury as the final garnish to his own Power and know that nothing - no one - could stand in his way.
This is not what he had expected.
“You’ve changed.” he finally says, his expression still perturbed. “I don’t like it.”
The sky is white with lightning now, a constant crackling orb around them, the sky as bright as the snow at their feet. He does not like dreaming, he decides. He cannot tell what is real.
Why are you here, she asks, and rather than add further uncertainty to this experience, he chooses honesty.
“I didn’t mean to come.” And he is no more sure of how to leave. He hasn’t tried, not yet. After he has killed her, he will. And he will kill her after he knows why she has changed, and what it will take to change her back again.
@Mazikeen
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