06-29-2016, 02:11 PM
Her skin was cool, but icy fear trickled down his spine. It grabbed at his stomach, tightened his chest until breaths came quick and shallow. His eyes were wide discs in shock.
The sensation lasted moments, but his grip was frozen upon her. A deer caught in sudden brightness, he was immobile. Soon, the stabbing pain of fear shifted to wanton melancholia. Guilt and grief welled up, glazing his normally chill gaze with glassy tears, as it hadn't since his father's funeral. An ache drilled into his chest as though the death was fresh as yesterday not fifty years old.
Aria did this to him. She said her powers were gone. Her power healed, dulled, cut away. These sensations were foreign, boring into his mind. A lobotomy would be less invasive.
A hiss and he pulled his hand from her, reeling and coddling it as though wounded. The sudden absence of her emotions slammed heavy, replaced only with anger. He wrenched power back into his own grasp, and with that terrible menace came control. A carefully contained rage that rarely surfaced.
"You said you felt nothing any more! You were mute."
Trust was hard won and easily lost. But she had a chance to explain, if she did quickly.
The sensation lasted moments, but his grip was frozen upon her. A deer caught in sudden brightness, he was immobile. Soon, the stabbing pain of fear shifted to wanton melancholia. Guilt and grief welled up, glazing his normally chill gaze with glassy tears, as it hadn't since his father's funeral. An ache drilled into his chest as though the death was fresh as yesterday not fifty years old.
Aria did this to him. She said her powers were gone. Her power healed, dulled, cut away. These sensations were foreign, boring into his mind. A lobotomy would be less invasive.
A hiss and he pulled his hand from her, reeling and coddling it as though wounded. The sudden absence of her emotions slammed heavy, replaced only with anger. He wrenched power back into his own grasp, and with that terrible menace came control. A carefully contained rage that rarely surfaced.
"You said you felt nothing any more! You were mute."
Trust was hard won and easily lost. But she had a chance to explain, if she did quickly.