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[OPEN] SWP :: The beginning of something new entirely

Tiamat the Ocean's Light Posts: 360
Aurora Basin Lady atk: 8 | def: 10 | dam: 3
Mare :: Unicorn :: 15.2 :: 6 years HP: 60 | Buff: NOVICE
Nimue :: Common Orca Leviathan :: Boil Reli
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01-29-2017, 03:22 AM
For several seconds—or minutes, or hours, since time seems to have warped and stopped all at once—the ocean mare can hear nothing but herself. The thundering of her heart races in her ears, pounding and screaming, and her breaths rasp in choking, feverish sobs that are wrenched roughly from the tightness of her throat. Everyone else has been muted—still they run, still they charge, with mouths parted and teeth bared in silent, wordless cries—and for a long moment, she hears none of it. Sweat beads along her skin, but the mare feels cold, as though even her bones have been frozen by this numbing, terrifying shock.

Tiamat fears that this is how it will be forever—that she will never be able to escape this cruel hell of anger and pain (the fiery jaws have opened, swallowing her world into their infernal pits of brimstone and misery). She fears that she has been lost.

But then they are there—her herd mate and her bonded, anchoring her like a lifeline of sanity. Nimue, with anxious squeals, clings to the Mender’s side, blowing into her face to try and rouse her from her stupor, before nudging her towards Wessex. “Okay,” Tiamat manages to choke out, her willpower to fight having dissolved into bitterness and pain. Forcing herself to stand on trembling legs, she ignores the glimpse of blood streaming down her leg, and resisting the urge of her healing magic as it sparks in wisps across her skin (this is a fight she must weather alone).

She falters only when the voice of the Earth God booms over the bloodied marshland, her broken mind clinging to the security that his familiar presence offers. His is a command that she can follow—leave this place, leave this monster and these lies—and with the power of his magic to rejuvenate her, Tiamat knows that they will make it home safe. At least until then, they will be spared.

After that…she doesn’t know what to believe anymore.


notes; Leaves with @Wessex <3
(and I don't mind! xD I adore threading with you!)
“Speech.”
tiamat
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
there’s a land that I heard of once—
in a lullaby.

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RE: SWP :: The beginning of something new entirely - by Tiamat - 01-29-2017, 03:22 AM

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