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Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni]

Knox Posts: 262
Outcast atk: 4 | def: 7.5 | dam: 6.5
Stallion :: Equine :: 17hh :: 7 Years [Tallsun] HP: 67.5 | Buff: NOVICE
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The hunter stares into the fire of the land and feels haunted and lost. He has felt the minds of murderers and martyrs; felt the essence of the very first resonate within his bones. Now he stands, fallen in the shadow of each and every one of them, struggling to maintain any semblance of balance. But he reminds himself of the cursed and their plight that lives on even past their death. It is too much to forget.

Manhattan seems relieved to be at his side. She remembers along with him, keeps up in time with his heartbeat and the ambling path of his unguided thoughts. She hears most prevalent now the voice of the cursed Sentinel; her master's most immediate father. Knox thinks often of him and the blood he drank at his baptism. It is his father's memory that has separated him from his brothers all this time; that has made him such a different beast. He is a monster still; a cold killer that struggles to feel emotion, but he is a merciful one. He sees those in his past who have killed and been killed, with mercy and with hate, with remorse and stoic pride, and he has begun to understand them all.

Resting on the surface of his soul, the Sentinel spreads his warmth. He tells Knox stories of a peaceful forest in a land now overrun by shadows, and urges the colt to lay his head to rest. Each voice of the past joins in unison, all telling him the same thing, yet each of them with different intent.

Rest your head by the flames. Sleep and dream of us.

And though he obeys, though he falls to his side at the edge of hellfire and awaits peace, he can not sleep. Manhattan falls in line beside him, her face against his own as a perfect image of the strongest bond the disconnected colt has ever known. For a moment or two there is nothing but the whistle of early morning wind and the sharp, biting crackle of earthen fire below. For a moment or two, there is at last a silence in his mind.




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Messages In This Thread
Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni] - by Knox - 01-23-2013, 02:03 AM
RE: Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni] - by Onni - 01-28-2013, 11:37 AM
RE: Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni] - by Knox - 03-30-2013, 06:47 PM
RE: Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni] - by Onni - 04-11-2013, 08:12 PM
RE: Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni] - by Knox - 04-14-2013, 12:17 AM
RE: Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni] - by Onni - 04-24-2013, 06:12 PM
RE: Sleep, Don't Weep [Onni] - by Onni - 05-06-2013, 03:09 PM

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