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— crocus ; &. the love lies bleeding.
⚔️ // “. . .”
byleth found herself staring blankly at the overcast sky. white flecks of snow slowly drifted down and landed on her cheeks , caught in her hair , covered a thin , white layer of frost over her clothes and the flowers that stubbornly bloomed there. but at least it was not rain.
so , it would have been a year ago now. . . . or . . . no. six years , byleth supposed. even still , it felt like yesterday that the sky had clouded grey , like this. the heavens had wept just as she had wept. the world had fallen apart as byleth felt the life drain away from her father’s pale and still form , leaving behind only a corpse. even now , her own chest grew TIGHT. her eyes stung with the swell of tears.
back then , a WAILING had torn through her entire body and she’d wished — ( don’t go a marigold sprouted in her palm. take me with you - cypress at her wrist , just above the vein. i still need you. — don’t leave me. )
. . . i love you. motherwart across the chest. blooming from the scar that marked a heart that didn’t - couldn’t beat.
it was her fault. losing jeralt. and sothis after him. and all of the lives she had lost in between. all because of her foolish desire to smite down the woman who had stolen her father away. who had taken him well before his time.
another flower sprouted. this one , a pale , six petaled bloom with a thin red vein bleeding down the middle. the petals fell around the tips of her ears. another flower bloomed to match. both delicately centered on each side.
would only that she bore a crown of thorns to match this terrible , skull-splitting ache.
sothis had called his death fate.
... their union , too , was fate.
( and for what? for what? )
byleth’s fingers unfurled and she raised her hand in the air. snowflakes danced around her still form and settled into the enlightened one’s palm. drifting , settling , melting , gone. all save for upon the marigold that stubbornly stayed. ( for the truth of it all lingered. gold in the silver snow. )
byleth watched as the pale green of her veins underneath her reddened skin flourished into vines that spread across her wrists and arms , and wound through the gaps in her fingers. CHOKED upon the wordless wailing that clawed even now at her throat , and clenched her jaw against the weight of a new pain lodging squarely there. as the vines spread alongside motherwart and cypress , asphodel and marigold , byleth coughed up the long red blooms that had lodged within.
body bent , crooked , spitting red flowers and blood into the snow.
( for there was no grave to place any flowers upon. )
enlightened one , whose fingers trembled , whose body shook , twisted and laden with vines and flowers , exhaled the shudder in her. stood , still , before lifting her flower-crowned head towards the sky where it did not rain. it snowed.
she squared her shoulders. steeled herself.
struggled , against the roots that anchored her feet in place to this meadow of dead things and purple crocus. braced , as she stumbled free and turned back towards the main road.
stepped away from where her love lay bleeding. grit her teeth in silent lament for the words she would never get to say.
#hanahaki tw#choking tw#body horror tw#event // a crocus among us#drabble#⚔️ ic. / crest of flames.#⚔️ thread. / closed.#(probably will make an open eventually but like also nnakjfbsakbfksabak)#(no she did not get to grieve him the way she needed to)#(sothis and her fused and then a /war/ started immediately afterwards she's not ok)#(anyways hmmmmmhmhmhm help her)
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