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☀️ ᴀʟɪɴᴀ sᴛᴀʀᴋᴏᴠ. ([personal profile] peasant) wrote in [community profile] ximilialog 2022-05-24 06:30 pm (UTC)

[ unwell. she doesn't need him to pinpoint a timeframe for her mind to remember. sedorum's red light casting a crazed glint across rhys' eyes. newt's brittle reassurance: i think this mission's just messing with me. spiraling down the drain of her own thoughts and paying penance for someone else's crimes, a saint bearing the cross until the very end. escaping that hell of their own making was meant to purge the disease, but —

the infection still lingers. her fingers still refuse to kindle with heat, beyond the hope of burning it out like a fever. but even with their options dwindling before her very eyes —
]

no one is killing anyone, promise or no promise
do you hear me?


[ if only her stubborn willpower could bend reality to make that true. she can't blind herself to the trail of carnage newt has left, a vivid mural of blistering skin and swaths of blood, as though to mock her with the fact it's already too late to create a peaceful ending to this. alina's stomach churns as she crawls to her feet, hissing as a scattered piece of fine china slices across a knee. ]

i'm already working on finding him so we can put an end to this
i'll do it without you if you're actually entertaining MURDER as a solution

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