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I screamed and I shouted at the roaring waves of the deep blue ocean crashing onto the tall, sharp cliffs below.
Because, the truth was, sometimes good didn’t conquer evil. Sometimes, to win a war, to overcome the world—you’d have to be the biggest evil of them all.
I was no better than that. Floating in life like a leaf, a branch, ripped by the rough autumn winds and carried into the unknown.
I didn’t have the option to fail. I never had the chance to give up, to quit. Even broken down and defeated, I would stand. I wouldn’t falter.
As ‘owed’, your Basalt Glass dagger. Be a good girl and try not to stab anyone with it while I am away. Please.
Perhaps I was so eager to be heard, that I forgot to listen.
I let the silver flames flicker in my eyes amidst the dusky evening, for all to see, for all to know. The Lord of Death had come home.
these powers would either obey me or die alongside me. But they would not chain me.
I would not falter. I would not yield, even in my last breath. I will not be caged. I will not be enslaved. I will not be controlled. I will not be afraid. Not now. Not ever.
I was Finnleah, Daughter of the Dead. I was a survivor. I was a warrior. I had endured this far, and I would endure more. Now and forever. I would not yield.
“Come on, little wildfire,”
“That pretty mouth of yours surely can talk a big game. If only actions were there to back it up.”
Such a lustful little thing.
“I’ve come to the point in my life where I no longer like to bargain,” the General said.
I would gladly burn them all—the good and the bad—if it meant I could keep her by my side.
THIS IS MORALLY GRAY PEOPLE
“Because I fucking love you, Finnleah! Because my whole soul trembles in your presence, my heart bleeds when you are away, and air burns like acid when you are not close. Because there isn’t a price I wouldn’t pay for you. I’d start a million more wars for you. I’d burn this whole fucking world down if it meant you’d be near.”
“So yes, I started a war for you, and I’d start a million more. I’d kill for you. I’d die for you. I would do anything you wish me to. You are the one I love, Finnleah. You are the one I desire. You are the one that holds the entirety of my body and soul. And if that’s not enough, then please tell me what is.”
Sometimes to change the world means to help one troubled soul at a time.
“Nope. Can’t do it,”
Without context this looks like nothing special, but I swear I laughed so hard at this.
