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10-18-2016, 08:05 PM
They were lies, all of them. What she told Ampere, what she told herself, nothing but the weighty falsehoods she made from grief and regret to build a wall around herself. Oh, she wanted to build that wall higher, to layer stone after stone up and around to guard from this pain she was causing. She had begun to believe those lies; even as they could guard, they could isolate and smother and already the fiery light within the former Sultana burned so very low. "I won't let you.” burned Ampere’s voice and Meg shied from it. All she wanted to do now was slink away to some hole to heal and to hide, to guard her children until they no longer needed her, and then to fade away.
The blue wasn’t done, and Megaera’s path was blocked by the spread of dark wings and words that left Ampere’s mouth and struck far too close to home. Taking a half step forward, Meg planted her feet, finding the earth beneath them a strange mix of rock and sand. Her ears pulled back against her head as her dark eyed stared just past Ampere—at anywhere but those piercing blues eyes that saw through her far too well. She should have flashed like Ampere did, should have burned, but every inch was disspassionate, distant because she couldn't force herself to do this otherwise. She didn’t want to fight, not against one she had once stood with. She didn’t want to attack or defend she just wanted to leave. “Ampere, let me pass.” There was that flat voice again, not even enough in her to pretend at conviction.
Megaera tried to concentrate, tried to build her own lightning in her eyes (red to face the blue so obviously coming) but though her eyes glowed briefly they fizzled and faded to black again. Was she was just too tired, too torn apart from feeling too many terrible things? Her soul had been to dark places before but there had always been light at the center of it, fire at the center, but maybe she’d snuffed it out or maybe, somewhere in her deepest heart, Megaera needed Ampere to stop her.
The wrath of the Mother of Companions was on her. Ampere lunged with enough fury for the both of them and Meg’s eyes widened then, shocked as she felt her potential for magic build only to fail and fade away. She had thought that would have been enough to ward the charging mare, as Meg couldn’t bear to let herself think that what Ampere did was out of friendship, out of belief. No, and obstacle, only and obstacle… She tried again, reaching deeper into her soul for sunlight but her magic wouldn’t rise. Her body jerked as Ampere slammed into it—a wall of emotion come to knock down her walk of apathy.
She felt the teeth, biting and brutal at her neck, and with a heavy yell lurched backwards and away from the pain. Her back legs shook at the instant order to carry herself back, but they were nimble and did so. Her front limbs tried to keep up, to shuffle backwards but Ampere’s hooves caught them. The blue’s flints, hard as iron, scraped down her knees and cannon bones over the scars left by fire. The puckered skin there tore, not deep but stinging terribly even as Meg’s neck began to throb.
Megaera had never retreated in her life, but she almost did now. Her breath hitched again and again, throat already tightened by the strain of holding in her emotions and slightly winded after Ampere's swift blow. She had set herself upon the edge of the Throat, ready to leave it behind, ready to hurt those she loved if she could only run away. It had worked on Cera but Ampere, fierce Ampere, was even now forcing her bodily back into the sands Meg had just professed to hate. But she couldn't go back, not now! Avery inch her
Heaving in a breath, Megaera swerved toward the ocean, making that open stretch of beach her target. She kept her turn sharp, trying to maintain a close proximity for Ampere for seconds more for running would not be enough, they were too evenly matched in speed and Meg knew it. Aimed toward the water, she bucked, lashed out with undirected back legs to ward off a pursuit and then bolted for the water.
Above where Kygo rested in his tree, the raptor circled before touching down and turning his golden gaze to watch.
ooc :: C'MON BABY MAKE IT HURT SO GOOOD XD
Words :: 799 (WELP Gwaihir's intro was gonna be a little more suspenseful but hey, what can ya do...)
Attack :: 1/4
Megaera
there is a war inside my heart gone silent
both sides dissatisfied and somewhat violent
there is a war inside my heart gone silent
both sides dissatisfied and somewhat violent
FAC FORTIA ET PATERE
be brave and endure
:: permission given for use of magic and force :: please tag Megaera in all posts ::
