#why did she say that akh

[hijab-proudness]

2day

It hurt when my closest friend told me she sees sadness in my eyes behind my smile and laughing, and knows I don’t tell her everything… She knows I talk to a therapist, but that I mostly just vent about stupid shit or work and don’t get into the deeper, personal stuff -which is another issue for another day.

She said she hopes I have someone I can share my real, inner thoughts with. And it stung, because I don’t. I can’t trust anyone like that—not just with my secrets, but with the real, unfiltered stuff. This friend knows some of my deepest things, things I’ve told no one else, yet it’s probably only 15% of what’s in my head. I write to get things out of my system, and I spar almost weekly in kickboxing to feel a bit of peace in my head. But when she said that, damn, i thought she didnt notice lmaoo I brushed it off with a joke.

That’s me yz akhhhh

My bad

[truths33k3r4]

( TW for minimal description of surgery, ptsd, trauma, mentioned needles, mentioned torture )

CHAPTER 11 - A Steady Hand and a Racing Heart

Lotus’ eye lids twitched and slowly slid open as consciousness swept through her body once more. Her fingers and toes tingled the smallest bit as she tried to stretch her tight muscles, but a quick flat pressure clamped down onto her left thigh, cutting off all movement. 

She took a deep breath through her nostrils, shuttering and nearly gagging at the fumes of antiseptic and rubbing alcohol. 

The bright light beamed above.

Something was holding her down.

Her mind began racing, just barely syncing with the rapid rhythm of her heart.

The flames of the past began burning into Lotus’ mind, filling her thoughts with a deep smaug.

‘ “ Lotus. You are safe. “ ‘

The calm voice of Donatello echoed to her. 

‘ “ Leo won’t hurt you. YOU CAN TRUST HIM. “ ‘

The smoke and sparks of her past slowly extinguished by the reminder of her present.

‘ I AM SAFE. ‘

She chanted those words over and over, almost like a mantra or a spell that she needed to repeat in order to keep it protecting her.

‘ I AM SAFE. I AM SAFE. I AM SAFE. ‘

All of a sudden there was a second voice she could hear. At first, it was muffled and joined with a low ringing sound, but that quickly faded to reveal it was Leonardo’s.

Lotus slowly turned her head so she could see the blue-clad mutant. 

“ L..lleooo? “

“ ~ OTUS! ~ Oh crap~ Uh ok~ ON’T MOVE. “

‘ “Don’t move” ???? Is that why he’s holding down my leg? What’s happening??? “

“ Wha’s goin on?.. Where.. where am I againn? “ Lotus slurred.

Leo’s eyes widened in panic. 

‘ HOW IS SHE AWAKE? She was exhausted!! I used the Lidocaine! She shouldn’t have felt anything!!  Wait. Ok, wait. Maybe she’s still numb.. She’s just- awake now. But that doesn’t mean the Lidocaine didn’t work.. ‘

Leo decided to test something out. 

He slowly and cautiously twisted the tweezers still in the incision in Lotus’ leg. 

“ -OW! “ Lotus’ face twisted in pain as her eyes opened wide. “ WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY- AKH! “

Leo stopped.

Time slowed as understanding crashed down on Leo like a tidal wave.

‘ She can still feel her leg.. the lidocaine wore off.. ‘

As Lotus’ eyes filled with fear, Leo’s became overwhelmed in dread.

He began going through every mental checklist, every article, every book chapter. What could he have done wrong? He followed all the steps to a tee! WHAT WENT WRONG??

‘ How did the Lidocaine wear off?!!! I administered the right amount!! I did everything correctly. EVERYTHING! HOW IS THIS HAPPENING???! ‘

Leo cursed himself for not using laughing gas or something to sedate Lotus, but it was far too late for that now. 

And even if he had… would it have worn off just as fast?

Leo cut off his thoughts dead in their tracks as he brought himself back to the present.

‘ Ok.. Breathe Leo.. State facts. That’s what Don would say. State.. Facts.

..ok..

..Fact: I have a completely awake patient now.

Fact: The lidocaine has worn off.

Fact: That means I’m HURTING HER.

Fact: SHE’S AWAKE AS MY TWEEZERS ARE STUCK IN BETWEEN THE MUSCLES IN HER LEG. 

.. Ok maybe stating facts won’t help.. ‘

Lotus still had her eyes set on Leo as she witnessed the mental battle being fought in his head. His eyes darted back and forth, his lip quivered, and she could’ve sworn he muttered something about Don.. 

And then her consciousness betrayed her. 

Being aware of her surroundings also meant she would now be aware of what was happening to her body. A hot, searing burn quickly slithered up her leg, mixed with an icy sting of something.. moving.

..Something was moving.. IN HER LEG..

“ Ow!- ow- OW!! Agh- “ Lotus winced hard and gritted her teeth as the cold burn grew.

Leo’s breath became sparse and quick as he turned his head to Lotus.

He took a shuddering inhale.

His grip on the tweezers tightened.

‘ PLEASE LET THIS BE QUICK. ‘

“ Lotus.”

Lotus’ unblinking lavender eyes looked up to his.

She was terrified.

And it was his fault.

His voice refused to hold it's form in order to speak, so he simply mouthed the words,

“ I’m sorry. “

As quickly as he could, his wrist twisted and yanked up.

Lotus’ head buried into her plastron as a scream burst through her throat. She tried to grab for whatever it was that was causing the pain radiating from her leg, but Leo’s vice-like hold stayed firm and unmoving. 

“ AAAGKHH!!! “

‘ I know- I know- I’m sorry!! ‘

Lotus’ body tensed harshly as her toes curled deep into the surgical table, crinkling the flimsy surgical blanket underneath her.

Memories and nightmares smeared over reality, flashing Lotus back to being strapped down.

Gagged.

Poked.

Prodded.

ALONE.

Shadowy forms approached her with needles, saws, and scalpels. 

The items gave off a small shine like the menacing smiles on the forms’ faces.

Another scream crawled out of her mouth as Leo tried again to pull the implant out.

‘ WHY ISN’T THIS OVER. I GOT OUT. WHY IS THIS STILL HAPPENING?? WHY AM I STILL BEING TORTURED????!! I’M NEVER GOING TO BE FRE- “

“- HANG ON, LOTUS! IT’S ALMOST OUT! “

She shot her eyes open.

The shadows melted away.

The restraints faded.

The darkness vanished.

She no longer saw sinister scientists, but instead, a very focused, very scared mutant turtle.

His eyes didn’t glow with evil intent, but with..

..tears.

His hands were both shaking under the tight grip.

He looked just as terrified as she was.

Lotus tried to breathe again, but all that escaped her mouth were dry coughs. 

Her throat burned.

“ I’M SORRY, LOTUS, I’M SO SORRY. “

Leo jerked his head down to his shoulder and tried to rub off the blurring tears. 

He tried so hard to choke back the sob trying to weasel it’s way out, settling for shaky, sparse breaths. His heartrate sky-rocketed with adrenaline and stress, but he put all his focus into keeping a steady hand.

‘ PLEASE.. COME ONNNN..’

With one more final agonizing pull, the implant jittered inbetween the tweezers’ lips.

IT WAS OUT.

With a light *clink* it landed into the small surgical dish next to Leo.

He swallowed hard, and timidly looked down to Lotus.

Her head remained nuzzled into her plastron, while her whole body trembled in pain and fear.

‘ I DID THIS TO HER. ‘

Leo rubbed his wet eyes on his other shoulder.

“ .. I got it, Lotus..It’s out. “ Leo whispered.

Both Lotus and Leo heaved a weighted sigh as they turned away from the other to wipe away their tears.

Lotus’ body still shook as she tried to slow her breathing.

Leo, too, tried to calm himself down.

Lotus rose her head, looking to Leo with questions in her eyes. ( The same look as a child to their parent at the doctors’ office. )

‘ Is that it? Is it done? ‘

Leo’s brow tightened as his face became solemn once more. 

His grip that remained on her leg tightened with his expression.

That was answer enough for her:

‘ THIS ISN’T OVER. ‘

Whooooo that was a longer one! :)

Hope you enjoyed!

To God be the glory!

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[abyssalmermaiden]

Does your OC find it easy to empathize with their enemies? Or do they see it as important to dehumanize them in order to combat them with sufficient determination?

Aryaille doesn't really try to empathize with her enemies. Diplomacy is not her strong suit- she's not going to convince anyone to change their mind if they've enough conviction to stand against her. Which is not to say it doesn't happen (she wanted to agree with Ysayle even as they fought in the Akh Afah Amphitheatre)

HOWEVER she does come to understand the motivations of most of her enemies due to a combination of the Echo and people like Alphinaud I'm-going-to-talk-reason-with-every-horrible-person-we-come-up-against Leveilleur

Up until some time in Stormblood she did dehumanize Garlemald because to her it was just conquest and murder and machines. (not to mention its far easier to overlook the humanity of uniformed foes all in helmets) I kinda think it took actually going there for her to fully wrap her head around the idea of Garlean civilians.

all in all its less about empathy for her and more about understanding her enemy's point of view. "I see why you're like this but I still vehemently disagree so I'm going to stop you"

thank the twelve she has eloquent and diplomatic allies

forms of love OC questions

[themultifandomgal]

His Queen Pt2

1 year later

Ahkmenrah and I were married 6 months ago. Normally the Queen would be with child by now, however I seem to be struggling to conceive. I am praying to Hathor, Min and Taweret that we will be able to have a child soon

"My Prince, your mother and father have taken ill" Baketmut runs into the library, Ahk reading up on the past rulers and I reading on what makes a good Queen. We put our books down and make our way to the King and Queens chambers. Kahmunrah is already there

"My son" Merenkahre croaks out "until we are well. I need you to take over as Pharaoh"

"But father, I'm not..."

"If you say your not ready I will jump out of this bed and beat you with a stick" Merenkahre laughs, which turns into a cough

"Ahk, Kah. Give us a moment alone with Amunet" Shepseheret softly speaks. The two men walk out of the room "come my dear" I walk around the bed to Shepseheret and take her hand "are you yet with child?" I look down at my feet, feeling ashamed

"No my Queen"

"Your time will come, here" Shepseheret pulls out a amulet that is in a box by her bed "wear this. My mother gave it to me to help with fertility. Wait until the full moon and keep praying"

"Thank you my Queen" I place the amulet around my neck and walk out of their room. Ahk and I take each others hands and decide to take a walk outside

"Where did you get that from?" Ahk asks

"Your mother. She said it will help us to have a child"

3 months later

I haven't had a bleed in 2 full moon cycles. And I have been rather sick recently. I have been peeing on barley and wheat every day since my suspicions and today the wheat is growing. Ahk and I are to have a baby girl. I leave for our chambers where Ahk is getting ready, Baketmut on my trail. I walk in with a huge grin on my face, shutting our door for some privacy

"Love, what is it? what's got you all happy?"

"The wheat is growing"

"Your with child?"

"Yes" I breathe out. Ahk runs up to me and spins me around

"We should celebrate, let's find mother and father" Ahkmenrah takes my hand and we walk to the garden where Merenkahre and Shepseheret are

"Good evening" Shepseheret says acknowledging our presence. Thankfully they got better after their sickness, which we all are grateful for

"Mother, Father. We have some news" Ahk squeezes my hand a little "Amunet is expecting"

"My dear that's wonderful news" Shepseheret pulls me in for a hug

"My son" Merenkahre places a hand on Ahkmenrah's shoulder "I'm very happy for you. Congratulations. Baketmut inform our people that we will be making an announcement tonight"

"Yes your highness" Baketmut bows her head and leaves us

"Which grew? the wheat? or barley?"

"The wheat" I reply to Shepseheret

"My son, may I speak with you?"

After Ahkmenrah and his father spoke, Akh comes to our chambers telling me all about how his father has been creating this tablet for him, however he doesn't know much about it. The next day we had our announcement and the people of Egypt are rather excited and happy for us.

Weeks go by and Merenkahre and Shepseheret fall ill once again, but this time they don't recover. The ritual of removing their organs and embalming them started a couple days ago, Ahkmenrah is now Pharaoh and I his Queen. Kahmunrah has been very grumpy and I just can't be dealing with him at the moment while Ahk and I are sorting out the proper burial for his parents

"Amunet?" I hear my name being called. I turn around to face Kahmunrah "when did you last eat or even drink? this can't be good for the baby"

"I'm eating and drinking fine" I turn back around to watch Ahkmenrah talking to a man who is moving the former King and Queens things

"Please, it would make me feel much better if you have something to eat. After all you are carrying my niece" Kahmunrah stands next to me offering me some bread. I take a piece trying to get him to shut up

"Why do you hate me so much?" I ask

"Hate you? oh no I don't hate you"

"But since I have lived here you have tormented me"

"I have because I hate how close you and my brother were and still are. I wish it were I who married you and because pharaoh" Kahmunrah places a hand on my shoulder. I quickly shrug it off

"There are many woman who would wish to marry you. Chase them not me" I walk away from him.

Next

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[izur-x]

Admirations!

Looking at your Izuru One-shot gave me a lot of heckling ideas to give you a request. Here is one! Could you do a one shot of Izuru x a reader who is an introverted cheerful person that loves to be around him, but when she meets Junko Enoshima, everything is completely different. I wanted reader to end up like Izuru so she can understand how he feels, so in exchange of that, she gets involved with Junko and asks her if she could interfere with her brain, just like how Izuru ended up like.

I hope this wont bother you at all. Good luck! :)) 💖

Ah yes! Thanks for the request, and no it's not bother me!

Reader want to understand izuru feelings again

Again sorry if it's ooc 🧍‍♂️

Summary: (y/n) who is a introvert with cheerful personally who is always at izuru sides

(y/p) = your pronouns

You're always at izuru sides, it didn't bother him, he accually like it surprisingly. You and Izuru were in a park doing nothing, you guys just sit there in a comfortable silent, with the sound of bird chirping, gentle wind flow through both of you, making Izuru hair follow the wind.

You hummed a song from a game that you played yesterday, for Izuru this atmosphere is perfect, with your humming making it even greater, and then some thoughts across your mind.

'i wonder how was izuru feels, i mean he say everything was boring, but.....' as you were going to the deepest thought, Izuru notice that your humming was slow down, he look at you, and waved his hand infront of your face, you were brought back to earth and apologies to him.

"sigh.. it's fine (y/n), it's unusual that you were in deep thoughts." Izuru look to the front, you just nervously chuckle "sorry about that hehe.. something caught my attention so" as you rubbing you nape and closed eyes smile.

"anyway! Let's go get ice cream, zuru'." You grab izuru wrists, go to an ice cream shop and buy one, when you guys walking to the shop, you were too excited, you didn't look right or left before you're crossing the street.

A car who was at the highest speed, basically it's almost hit you, but izuru grab you fast and let the car pass, you just dumbfounded of what happened, you look at Izuru "next time look right and left before you go across the street." You nervously nodding your head, and continue walking to the shop.

Time skip

You were getting distracted by your thoughts from that day, and also, you missed Izuru, it's been awhile since you last saw him, and now you're in deep thoughts not caring what's serounding.

You bummed into someone chest and falls "akh, im sorry for crash into you." You bow quickly and starts walking, you didn't care who is your bump into, you heard weird laugh from behind. You stop and look behind, you see a girl with pigtails and showing too much chest, one is a girl with short hair and freckles, and you see him.

The one you missed, the one who is gone for over a month. It's Izuru, he's back, you notice something wrong with him.

Your expression drop, slowly backing away, Izuru walked towards you, before you take off and run, Izuru grab your wrist and placing a piece of clothing to your mouth, it's making you dizzy, you found yourself in a familiar warmth, and then you're falls asleep in Izuru arms.

You wakes up, it was so cold in the room, you didn't remember what happened, trying hard to remember until you remember what happened. You sigh for the event that's going on with you, you keep asking to yourself 'why is Izuru like that?' 'what does he feels now?' 'last time i know how he feels, but now...' those thoughts remains inside your brains.

You didn't notices that the door was open, and you also didn't hear what someone said.

"hellooo??" You jumped from the sudden voice, "oh good! Now you're paying attention! Seems like you're in deep thoughts! Puhuhuhuu! I wonder what are you thinking about, hey? Tell me!" You look at the women who is speaking to you, the pigtails taking a seat besides you and leaning closer.

"h-hey, um, personal space.....?" At first she confused and then laughing like crazy, you back away, you heard a voice from infront of the door "leave (y/p) alone, junko." Junko walks to Izuru "aww come on! I only messing with (he/she)-" "it's (y/p)." "Alright! alright!, geez it's only pronouns why are you mad, okay finee, I'll leave you lovebirds alone!" Junko slowly closing the door, before she actually close the door she said "don't forget to use condom!" And close the door.

You were staring at Izuru, he look away from you, walked besides you and take a seat. The awkward silent slowly taking over, no one is talking "look, im sorry for leaving you.." Izuru sliced the awkward atmosphere, "it's okay, really, i just never expecting this." Izuru hummed.

"hey, izuru..." He didn't know why he's hearts sting's a little, "yes (y/n)?" He look at you with dull ruby orbs, "how do you feels." "Huh? What do.. you mean..?" Izuru confused by you "i mean, when were together, i.. i know how you feels..." You grab your uniform cardigan, your eyes became glossy.

"(y/n)...", bitting your bottom lips and start to sobbing, Izuru petting you head as a comfort and pull you closer, "im sorry..". after a few minutes, you start to calm down, you wipe the tears from your face, "im gonna calm down myself.... Can you-" "right, you want me to leave, okay. Take your time.." Izuru getting up from the seat and start walking to the door.

As soon the door was closed, you decided to take asleep 'its nice if i sleep for...eve...r...' your slowly closing your eyes and sleep.

It's been 3 day's since those three kidnapped you, you still couldn't figure it out about Izuru feelings, when they released you from that cold room, you talked to junko, you didn't stupid, it's obvious that she do something about Izuru.

"hey junko." "Hm?? Oh, heeyyy (yyy/nnn), what's up??? Oh! You want to know what happened to Kamukura-senpai?" Junko move closer to you "yes. What did you do to him." "Aww come on! I'm just messing with his brain!" You were completely shock, how can someone do such a thing?

"hmm... You may wonder how i do that! Its simple!" You look at junko intensely "despair that's all." Junko turn around and walk away.

You just standing in there feels completely hopeless.

That's night, you couldn't even sleep. Junko make an offer if she could mess with your brain, you didn't answer because izuru cover your mouth and drag you away.

You were ready to answer the offer, cause it's night you wete expecting Izuru was asleep, and he is. you making your way outside and go to the rooftop and see junko by herself, it's strange that mukuro isn't with her.

"finally got an answer?" She look at you, you sigh, "yes....." "Puhuhuhuu! Finally! It's been a week, i keep waiting for an answer!" You sit besides her and look down to the street, it was blury, "sooo, what's your answer??" Once again invading your personal space.

"sigh, I'll take the offer..." Junko wide her smile, "oki doki! Let me mess with your braiiinnn, aaahhh~! I can't wait you become one of us~" she hugging herself, "come on let's go! Before Kamukura wakes up." She drag you to strange room, there was a tv, a single tv and a chair.

"come sit on the chair! Im gonna turn on the video~ puhuhuhu! I can't waiiittt" as you listening her rambling about despair back and forward, and taking a sit, the sit was uncomfortable, it was a chain on it.

you wait until she finish preparing the video, "oh, i forgot to lock the door, be right back." She walk to the door and lock it, "alright! Are you readdyyy~?" She purred into your ears "i take that as a yes!"

"hmm, i think that you will go brutal, im gonna used the chain" junko chained your both arms and legs. She walk behind the tv and start playing the video, you look at the tv and start to feel dizzy.

You didn't know what's going on, and suddenly your sight become completely black. After a few hours, you start to waking up, you feels... Oddly fine? You didn't know what feelings is this.

You look at the person standing infront of you, it was Izuru, he didn't look happy. You realize that you can feels his emotions, previously you can't tell what's his emotions are, but now, you finally understand how he feels.

"your so dumb... Why would you do that." You didn't answer yet, at least for now. You getting up from the chair and walk out with him, both of you greeted by junko and mukuro, junko look really happy, mukuro is the same like always.

"welllccoommee (y/n)! To the despairrr~! Im glad that you were joining!!" You just nodded "hmm~ come on! We got a jobs to do~"

At the end, you finally understand what Izuru feels, it's good that you take the offer, but izuru didn't happy with it. As day passing by, Izuru finally accepting it, that spend the rest of his time with you.

"You hummed a song from a game that you played" the song that you hummed is "my actual code" by a game named "there is no game" go check it out on youtube!

anyway goodbye! And stay safe!

[winterstorm032802]

What We Once Were

Garlemald

Nora: *looks at the roof of a small building and keeps a straight face*

???: *watching her on that rooftop* ...

Nora: *turns away and walks off*

???: *tilts their head* ..?

Nora: *sighs and casts Ruin III*

???: *caught off-guard as they get hit and jump down from the roof* You got me there

Nora: Who are you? Why are you after me?

???: *gets in a battle stance*

Nora: I don't want to fight you... But it seems you leave me no choice *summons Ruby Carbuncle and gets ready* You can back down now, last chance

???: So cocky, who knew you had such a side to you

Nora: *summons Bahamut*

Bahamut: *Akh Morn*

???: *gets blasted away and growls as they regain their balance* Powerful, too bad it came from someone as weak as you

Nora: *summons Ifrit* You know nothing of me *eyes glow in the flames*

???: I know more than you think *strikes Nora with Hyoton*

Nora: *stuck in place as the ice grows* (Gods with the snow here and cold air, this is making it worse!) *casts Ruby Rite, making the ice melt*

???: *Hyosho Ranryu*

Nora: *winces as she's frozen in place* Nngh

A blast from behind strikes the person and they stagger as a quick and small blast of fire destroys the ice

Nora: *looks to see Alphinaud and Alisaie*

Alisaie: What the Hells is going on?

Alphinaud: *casts Leveilleur Diagnosis on Nora*

Nora: How did you know?

Alisaie: Heard some static from your Linkpearl and Julius helped us track it to here. Now who is this?

Nora: Don't know, they're trying to kill me is all I know

Alphinaud & Alisaie: *go to Nora's side*

???: *Phantom Kamaitachi*

Nora: *summons Garuda, countering the attack*

The gust of winds causes the person's hood to go down

Nora: *eyes widen* No...

Alphinaud: What's wrong? Is it the Echo?

Nora: *tears up as she looks at a Miqo'te and steps back* Why are you doing this?

D'narah: ...

Nora: *grits her teeth and casts Slipstream*

D'narah: *back hits against the building as he is thrown off from the winds*

Nora: *panting as she drops to her knees* W-Why... how could you?

D'narah: *disappears in smoke and ends up in front of Nora, about to strike her down*

Alphinaud: No!

Alisaie: *readies to strike D'narah*

D'narah: *stops*

Alisaie: *halts her movements* (What is he doing?)

Nora: *softly sobbing as she looks up at D'narah* D'narah... please

D'narah: ... *expression softens and then he looks conflicted*

The image of a young Nora crying and looking up at him due to her tripping and scrapping her knee flashes through D'narah's mind

D'narah: *lowers his arms and looks at Nora sadly, before throwing down a smoke bomb*

D'narah is gone

Nora: *holds herself tightly as she cries*

Alisaie: D'narah, that was the friend you told us about... *sympathetically looks to Nora and kneels to her* I'm so sorry

Alphinaud: (Had he meant to actually kill her? Would he be able to? That facial expression of his says otherwise... What happened to him?) *kneels down and holds his arms out to Nora*

Nora: *thrusts herself into his embrace and cries louder*

Alisaie: *rubs Nora's back in circles*

~

D'narah: *kicks a broken machine a few feet away as he paces back-and-forth* Why... why did she have to look at me like that? *drops to his knees and covers his face in his hands as he tries to stifle his cries, but his tears fall*

[eebon]

---  @nefertemu​​ | continued

“Why… now…” The mage echoes the words to himself as if fog that would dissipate into the air. Bright glow of his eyes on the man long dead. Man that was him and was restless and forgot his own self, his own reflection in the mirror he broke.  

“I’ve always been here…”

Hasn’t he…? Hasn’t he watched this man from his very child years? Time long lost and memories withered over millennia millennia too many of them to properly count. Hasn’t he protected him. Hasn’t he followed, listened, hasn’t he lived this man’s life through this man’s eyes, training years and studies and duties and dark magic breathed into his heart until he died and was born.

Born a thing of magic cast away like a faulty spell.

“In this dark expanse of space. Here… I’ve dwelt. Here in the void where you have left me, mage.”

Why are you here.

Black hands reach for familiar face. Reach past the mirror glass. Palms touching cold dead cheeks so gently like they could break a neck. Fingers cut on the pieces of glass leaving prints and smears.

Why   Why   Why

“Why did you leave”

      “I would once ask”

               “But I am  so… glad…”

A whisper like mist on the wind.

“ Cut me off. ”

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It was an echo more than a thought, more than a memory. A distant touch in the back of his mind while he saw painted halls and pillars so high they scraped the clouds. After-images, flashes left after bulbs popped that turned the world black with spots in front of his eyes.

Shocks that wouldn’t quite go away, no matter how many times he blinked. 

He mouthed the word, he dare not say what was lost. 

Ka.

He called himself Akh, he called himself the spiritual being, a product of the merged life and personality, wishes given human form. The supreme thing that lived beyond death, entering the House of Ra beyond the judgement of the afterlife, welcomed to his alter by the tombkeepers who held his lost name long beyond his death, the very thing that he had once done, so very long ago, before robbers, before them, before–

“The Ring.” 

It made them. It made both of them.

His face was held in hands that were cold, but then, he was cold so he shouldn’t be able to feel it anyway. A heart long since stopped beating. Breath long since past being drawn. 

He stared back into those eyes, illusion eyes, and even when he called himself an Akh, he was more of a Sheut. A shadow of intent, a wish on dying lips when a man let himself be cut in half to protect him, to protect her. 

I wish to protect, always.

He cracks–a mask splintering under fingers digging into sharp cheekbones, and his skin is green and his eyes are red, and he’s Orisis dragged-back by Isis but she could never fully retrieve what she lost. He’s a rotted corpse that rules the underworld, he’s black magic given life by a man who wanted to know all and who left his after-images on the living world in sets of two.

Fingerprints. Shadows.

“We’re the same.” He licks cracked lips. “Don’t you remember? I remember him.” 

“...Him” The illusion whispers, like fog, like smoke, like a mouthful of glass. Lips that only mouthed after lips. Eyes that only watched eyes, watched the falling apart corpse like falling sand and memories and truths. He didn’t realize, he never did, how he wanted these truths. How he waited for them how he wished to touch them to seize them to grasp them to dig them the way his nails dug into bone. His nails that tore the dry old skin. His nails that were dirty under golden paint that scratched down his reflection’s cheeks. His own cheeks, He felt the scratches on his cheeks. Ugly bloody cuts like that of a knife.

But neither of them could bleed.

His hands closed on the dry withered neck. Ebon drew a heavy breath, a forced thing. But neither of them could die. 

And it was all because of him

Him. 

Him. 

Him who fought and died. Him who served. Him who taught. Him who drank the world and mysteries and truths and failed to protect. 

“I have knowledge…. of him…”  And of failure. And of death. Of the axe that cut his flesh. Of the gold burning the heart. The heart is no more.

The illusory hands trembled on the decayed skin. Thoughts of half people with half faces shaked through him leaving mirages like faulty wet paintings staring at them, lingering like unfinished statues, like sentences forgotten mid-word. Even though… he lived there. Once. Even though... He once wished to protect... What?  Whom?

“It can never be.... whole....”

“It is because of you...”

“You have that which I miss.... But I don’t miss it. I don’t miss you. I don’t miss service. I don’t miss your cursed gold”

Do you miss me

[tfloosh]

Discovery

Week 4 is here!!! I’m starting the week off with some post-game BotW Zelink. Enjoy!!!

Zelda was exceptionally giddy when she woke that morning. Today was the day Link promised to take her exploring across Hyrule. Sure it was disguised as a trip to reestablish diplomatic relations with the four faces across Hyrule, but Zelda knew Link saw it for what she really wanted: a chance to rediscover Hyrule. So much had changed over the past one hundred years. Even little Hateno Village had grown from a few sparse rice patties and homes to a thriving town. She had enjoyed staying at Link’s house there and talking with Purah about the changes in technology while she had been fighting Ganon, but she needed to get out and see what was left of her country.

“The Princess can only thrive in the wild,” Link had said teasingly the night before.

Link had their horses saddled and ready for their journey just as the sun was breaking into the sky. They had enough food for the first leg of their journey, which would take them to the Zora’s Domain.

“Are your old friends still there?” Zelda asked once they set out on the path to the Dueling Peaks. “The ones you would play with when you were younger. What did you call yourselves? Bazz’s Bad Bunch?”

“The Big Bad Bazz Brigade,” Link corrected, his cheeks turning slightly pink. “And yes, they are all guards for the Domain now. One of them, Rivan, even has a daughter.”

“That’s so strange to think about,” Zelda mused. “So much of Hyrule seems untouched through those hundred years, but then you meet the people. The grandparents who were children during the Great Calamity, the people who grew up with the legend of Hyrule at its height.”

“The Rito assumed I was a descendent of the Hylian Champion,” Link explained. “I didn’t know how to correct them. How do you say you’re not a descendent of yourself?”

Zelda laughed.

***

“I want to show you something,” Link grinned as they repacked their horses. They had stopped for a quick lunch in Kakariko Village and were about to head out again, but apparently Link had other plans.

He grabbed her hand and led her back toward the east gate. Zelda wanted to ask where they were going, but the grin still on Link’s face told her he wouldn’t say. They raced up the side of the mountain and past the shrine that was there. Link picked a beautiful blue flower and handed it to her.

“Nightshade,” he said. “It will help reduce noise from movement if cooked properly, and it glows in the dark.”

“Link, did you study the properties of herbs and plants while you adventured across Hyrule?” Zelda’s eyes lit up.

“Inadvertently,�� he grinned. “But that’s not what I really wanted to show you.”

He led her further into the forested area until they caught sight of what appeared to be a giant flower.

“It’s a Great Fairy’s spring,” Link explained. “I thought you would want to see it.”

“Why didn’t you show it to me any of the other times we were here?” Zelda gasped as she walked forward to inspect the spring further.

“Because we were busy then,” he shrugged. “And this trip is all about discovering new things.”

Zelda rolled her eyes and gave Link a small shove. They spent the next twenty minutes looking at all the different plants around the spring. Zelda smiled at seeing a small cluster of Silent Princesses, and Link informed her of the augmentation properties of all the samples she had collected.

“I’ll have to start a research journal for this trip,” Zelda said as they rode down the slope to the ruins of Goponga Village.

“We can get a book in the Domain,” Link said.

***

“I will forever be amazed by the beauty of the Zora’s Domain,” Zelda sighed as they stood before the statue of Mipha. “It is fitting that the greatest craftsmen in all of Hyrule would memorialize her in stone. I pray the ending of Calamity Ganon has given the Zora here even more closure over the loss of their Princess.”

“It truly has, Your Highness,” Prince Sidon smiled down at them. “The elders have even welcomed Ruta shutting down. I would even go so far as to say Father doesn’t mind it either.”

“Oh, I don’t mind Vah Ruta shutting down,” Zelda said. “I would just like to know why. Even after all these years, we still know so little about how the Divine Beasts work. I’m afraid those who would know best are our lost Champions.”

“But that can wait ‘til tomorrow,” Link said.

Zelda whipped her head around, “What?”

“We’re going exploring tonight,” Link smiled. “Sidon agreed to show us the Veiled Falls.”

“I remember that waterfall,” Zelda grinned as the two led the way to their destination. “I believe that’s where I first met you, Sidon, though you might have been too young to remember. Mipha was teaching you how to swim up waterfalls.”

“I do remember her teaching me,” Sidon frowned. “But I did not know you were present.”

“Yes, Mipha agreed to pilot Ruta then,” Zelda saw Sidon’s frown deepen, so she changed the subject. “You were so small then, I almost didn’t believe Link when he introduced you.”

Sidon laughed, “At least swimming up waterfalls is easier now.”

***

“These fireproof elixirs are disgusting,” Zelda made a face as she took another swallow.

“You seemed to enjoy making them well enough,” Link smirked.

“Because that was science,” she complained. “I wish your flamebreaker armor fit me.”

“You still feel the heat in that,” he pointed out. “So trust me when I say drinking the elixir is much better, despite the taste.”

“It’s been so long since I’ve been to Goron City,” Zelda skipped along the path to examine a smotherwing butterfly. “Has it changed any?”

“There’s a new rock sculpture of Daruk,” Link answered quietly so he wouldn’t scare off the butterfly. “At least I think it’s new. You’ll remember better than me.”

“Is your memory really still that spotty?” she turned away from the butterfly to examine him more closely.

“I remember memories of us best,” he blushed. “But details from them are hard to make out sometimes. And it’s hard to piece together memories from when I was younger.”

“Do you remember your family at all?” Zelda’s brow furrowed.

“I know more about them from what other people have told me,” Link started walking again to have something to do. “My memories are best triggered by locations or sensations, and we lived in Castletown.”

“Which is in unrecognizable ruins,” she nodded understandingly. “Then we will have to rebuild.”

“What?” Link froze where he stood.

“You deserve to remember your family and other childhood memories,” Zelda said without stopping. “I remember mine far too clearly, and I don’t want to be the only one that suffers with embarrassing childhood memories.”

“Hey wait a second,” Link jogged to catch up with the now laughing Zelda.

***

“So how much of our time together do you remember?” Zelda asked as they cut across Hyrule Field toward the Gerudo Desert.

“More than you think,” Link said, a small smiled crossing his face. “Those pictures you left on the Sheikah Slate really helped, and I could fill in most of the rest on my own.”

“And the, uh, feelings that came with those memories?” she blushed, letting her hair fall in front of her face so Link wouldn’t see.

“Those are a little disconnected,” he admitted. “I didn’t find the places in your pictures in order, so I got a little mixed up with the feelings I had while experiencing the events and the feelings I felt remembering the events. I felt anger toward you when you went to that shrine in Tabantha without me, but when I remembered it, I had already remembered your struggles and anxieties, so I knew why you were taking your anger out on me. So I remembered I felt anger, but now I also remember compassion and wanting to help you, and I really want to slap the old king sometimes, Hylia bless his soul.”

Zelda couldn’t help but laugh, “I understand. I’m surprised you can keep it all straight.”

“I tend to focus on my feelings from the second go round, which makes things somewhat easier,” he shrugged. “And probably better for you anyway.”

“Hey, what’s that supposed to mean?” she cried indigently, but Link was already sprinting away on his horse, laughter flying with the wind.

***

Link found Zelda sitting on the edge of the platform next to the Akh Va’quot Shrine. She was talking with Kass. Link could imagine Kass telling her all about his teacher, the Sheikah poet who worked in the old Royal Court. Zelda was aware of the bard’s feelings for her; the Sheikah’s songs were not subtle, but she never had the heart to spurn his feelings. Link thought the whole thing was quite ridiculous, but he had enjoyed Kass’ stories of his teacher after the Great Calamity struck nonetheless.

“Ah, hello Link,” Kass said cheerily when Link finally joined them on the ledge. “Here to enjoy the beautiful night as well?”

“There is no better place to see the stars,” Link smiled and let his legs dangle next to Zelda’s off the ledge.

“Kass, would you mind if I talked with Link alone?” she asked in that sweet way no one could ever say no to.

They sat for a time in silence after Kass left, and Link was never one to start a conversation, so he waited for Zelda.

“I’ve been debating whether or not to talk to you about this,” she started. “But after talking with Kass, it would seem that you already know.”

She looked at him, her green eyes shining in the blue light from the shrine.

“Link, I have romantic feelings for you, and I didn’t want to make you feel pressured to return them, which is why I held them in since we were reunited,” she smiled. “But I have loved you for one hundred years.”

Link smiled back and moved his hand so it rested on hers, “I don’t remember much of the past, but I do know I loved you until my dying breath, and I remembered I loved you before I remembered your name. I would be happy to always walk by your side, if you would have me.”

“Only if you consent to walk beside me,” Zelda laughed. “No more of that three paces behind business. I could always feel you staring at me.”

“It was a part of the job,” he laughed back. He squeezed her hand. “I’ll always protect you.”

“I know,” she said before leaning in to kiss his cheek.

Link reached over to cup her cheek in his hand and gave her a proper kiss.

“I’ve been waiting one hundred years to do that,” he smiled.

“Well you don’t have to stop now,” she grumbled.

Link pulled her closer, “Yes, Princess.”

[the-firebird69]

These reports are all mismatched and none of them agree online any of the TV stations they're all off by country mile there's something very wrong with that. What is the public doesn't get any information that's accurate the second is they're doing it on purpose and third is that they're trying to keep all the information to themselves but in the process of doing so they're getting themselves hurt and it looks like that's what they're doing cuz it is parsley. What's a really up to is saying it's not this and it's not this it's not this then what is it. So you want people to figure it out

The few reasons why do people doing this one of the big ones is the clothes are trying to confuse incarcerate and just wait and just illusion and they're doing it non-stop even under massive attack and this is proof and it's ridiculous what they do looks ridiculous I'm going to wipe them out and suitable slobs and Mac has some riding against the retarded and it's not really good having a full attention no.

There's some recent developments our son is still keeping his reproductive system working and it is embarrassing to him but we have seen it before and they do it to people more often than you think a lot more often. I do it to each other here all the time and we're going to caution them not to do it to our son one last time and then we're going to start picking them off nobody wants some around and we certainly don't. There's too many people who are bothering us here as well for ridiculous things. And we're off and we are doing a lot of work. Today we'll see some changes here and they're pretty big

*Governor Rick Scott akh on rema large will no longer be mayor he's going to be fired because of what they say he did and it's going to be fired by Tommy f and secretly by Mac Daddy

*there are a few people that are willing to go as a result and they shall one of them is not bja and he doesn't like Trump for saying it Trump is one of those guys in his position here is ridiculous everyone wants them out and told him he's out and he's gone and he keeps going back to the office by force they kept removing you and he kept his secret.

*there are many other positions trumpsters are in and will be removed from and some bja if not all and other gifted people are being ousted fully and it's no joke Snicker all you want

*The Tide is lower the surge is non-existent the storm is almost on top of our sun it's only 100 miles away and it's Southwest it's working its way up we're going to push it off another 50 miles it's already been pushed out 50 so they're making 140 roughly to the eye.

*there are several people who don't understand what we're talking about and they are the two vulgar idiots Trump and Dan and their entire cadre, no they believe they ordered it to happen. And they feel pretty good about it others are not so happy and are going to go after them as well as after Tommy f 4 clearing the diamonds out and it is not so much Mac Daddy no it is is it DC guy and Ben Arnold no he's really a DC guy. And theyre going after Trump now because they had words with him and Trump had words with him and it was in his fierce and they deserve each other as to he and Tommy f

*there is a giant reserve of hatred here yes and she used up on Trump

*several shows are beginning today and they are dumb and dumber it's number one and to get there they do struggle and there's some fighting and they do see them leaving from Los Angeles and it's right with the other movie left off dumb and dumber to. That movie is extremely insulting what they say in the movie is very insulting and their actions and attitude is over the top. They think they're powerful so they can go around slandering everybody making fun of everyone and doing stupid deceitful acts and despicable Acts and really the kind of crappy things but that's what they do. And they get beat up a lot and the rest of the lot and they find it fascinating that he'll quickly and it's not that quick though because they lost so many people and they're losing more now they invaded Australia again and they're massive for an attack on the other and the clothes are attacking I haven't played steadily but the more like I arriving and enforce will be 10 to 20 billion octillion in one strike. We will polish off almost everything except a few cities tonight and they can keep sending you it's if they like. Along with dumb and dumber are two other programs happening simultaneously that was similar nature. And they are who's the boss Star girl and it's really Lily and she's going to be a star in the show out in the low desert our sun was abused I'm going to pay you back. And yes it would be Jennifer Equiz David has relation to the equinox which is coming up and it's her time to be free and enjoy life a little bit more not completely free she's not with him yet he says. And she's in a few movies is Jennifer's body and The Transformers and she's really possessed but Hera is there the whole time. And shortly thereafter is Tron the second movie and it's intense. We're at the same time as dumb and dumber today I have some more movies that you would not think would be happening. And it's not animal house. He always says that. After Midwest is a good bet and yes Tommy boy in the midwest but that's Trump and son and they're going to be doing dumb and dumber but they do Tommy boy and they become motivated to do dumb and dumber because they think you're doing stuff. And it's going on shortly and yeah that's a classic movie our son says. Dumb and dumber goes from today into tonight into tomorrow morning and then heat and all sorts of spaghetti westerns begin after dumb and dumber and they continue into Mexico from Utah after heat it's a cesario and that movie is where the big big bucks go to Alabama. And tomorrow night is die hard and the money will go to Alabama and early Friday morning is hurricane heist. But that's really two movies that are simultaneous and that would be dumb and dumber and Tommy boy and they're practically at the same time and Jennifer's body comes after there's one more movie that is very odd it happens at the same time and it's a strange comedy it starts one of the protagonists or antagonist depending on how you look at it that's been around forever and it is Mac Daddy. And it's not him as Anthony Hopkins no although that's one of his characters he likes to play and it's nothing to do with Cicero. And it's not his Schwarzenegger character. Although it's not him it really isn't. Dead poets society and actually that's the movie and now St Elmo's fire has already happened I don't know it hasn't but that's coming up too 16 candles too it's a huge movie his son doesn't really get it that's your kids doing poetry and someone kills himself but you have to read the poetry.

And there are more announcements

*the package to have a son go to Utah would be circumvented and serious way and it's going to be rerouted. And for a week many days and from now too it's going to be it's held for 2 weeks or a little bit more and it's only going to give him a couple weeks to get ready for the trip of his life if it actually makes it through the mail the second time and they're not considering changing it because the dates line up with something so they're going to try and RAM rod it and are expecting people to back them up on it and the max will all pitch in them sure and we'll have to stop them in many ways from doing their code jobs. And our end of it is he gets some money and it's not dependent on the government anymore and that's why Washington DC gets buried with sand and yeah it stays here for a while not for a day. But it's not very kind two weeks is not a great amount of time and he has to get a check cashed and he's got to get his bank straightened out and it says I might need a new card and you can't do that so you can't straighten it out it's ridiculous but he can take money with him and that's what he's going to do. He said it's going to have to hang out with Ben Arnold and make fun of back look at me with my big huge satchel of money at the bar in the airport I'm going to skybar and find some high balls. Its like a baby. Lol. The match starting to figure out how it's kind of stupid. It's a very important subject and it's a lot of work and it's a lot of code and we're going to start doing it shortly after that event but boy talked about making things tough on someone you he can get around it all and you start bothering you yeah we knew about two weeks you didn't tell him. Is there something she can figure out real quick but it doesn't know everything about geology and I mean come on I mean that's not fair he figured out pretty quick okay but a bunch of new and I'm making fun of him and it's not funny because we put the diamonds here without being here or seeing it and that's our job our wife as well with teams husband and wife teams he says she's the master and he's the blaster Master blaster. But we're going to watch this happen and we're going to be there it's going to be terrifically hard for him he has to go to the reading of the will and he didn't go to any funeral and he didn't see his mom beforehand and say anything decent just saw her in court and they're going to bring that up too. And he's going to say that she was not in the right mind that's true. And they're trying to stop the whole thing he says no it's more torture and it's really about Arnie's stuff which is what he's going to say it really is anyways. And they're trying to demonize her and more. It's going on shortly and he knew about his dad in the story about them saying she was doing it and so forth she only did a little but women do that they say okay he says in response. There's a huge number of people watching we don't get the expression it's kind of like that one or that one

*and one more thing no one more after this we have a huge huge amount of ships to clear out no I don't I'm pushing the storm off only because we don't want to see all this destruction in a place where he goes and that's part of it and the other party is it would run right over him and we needed to go north right now and it's moving Northwest a little bit and it's about 80 miles offshore by the time it gets here it will be about 120 which is right on the money. And they'll be lined up for the shows and this area just got a nice drenching and washed out old sewage yeah a bunch goes into those canals

*there's a giant request for a son to be quiet but he's not he's just oh I can't figure this part of the plane out since I know the whole thing right macs year cuz his irritating him and he knows about it this stupid clown. And that's not a huge part a huge part is a whole bunch of these higher ups and going and they're leaving town and they're fighting and disappearing. Is a huge War with the clothes right now

*there's still 20 large lasers in space and 10 small and they're largely unharmed and nobody has engaged them

*there are 10 small lasers and they're disabled everyone's fighting over them and five of them are on fire the other five are being hit constantly as a threat or something stupid

*there were 20 large lasers on Earth and now there's 10 as 10 of them were utterly destroyed 10 of them are basically on fire or being blown up here and there soon they'll all be destroyed and Tommy F will seek revenge mostly on Trump

Couple more points

*you don't like the attitude here and we're going to correct it my son doesn't like it at all and you're obtuse

*and we need your attention now just about to do another maneuver in your area and yes we're pulling bunkers out and we will do it cuz I'm sick of your clones they're idiots. And we are going to play some of the Bermuda triangle getting tired of your a****** and blockade. And we're doing that fairly soon as well as raising kju from here and other

*we're beginning The final countdown. For the stone chips in the Midwest of the area that we cleared and we're detonating shortly really clear debris and then we launch and the quadrant is in the western side and it's the northwest and you will be you will all be in fear and moments in the West as it is near California and Oregon and Washington States and you're not ready for the amount of destruction that we're going to cause on Earth in a few moments it is massive is nothing like the size of the attack in Australia which is twice as large an extremely impressive but it's right at home we used to live and we hear that too from a lot of you who complain here and you get hit. It will be in about 1 hour and yes you do stupid movies out there after.

Onto other things now no this is all happening, we're going ahead with all of it and it's perfect it's wonderful it's handling the problem and we handle the problem and with signing people up left and right anywhere issuing franchisees and we are building buildings renovating buildings millions and millions in an area and putting in businesses it is huge and we acquired tons of factories and we're setting up huge factories to produce automobiles and other items hand tools even then and more much much more tons of products and we've got factories all over Earth that we're pulling and bringing to certain areas where we're going to produce tons of stuff huge lots and it's deployment for tons of people. Got a couple more items and they're big.

*clone war is going well all the holes are under siege the three caverns are breached and the stuff is being fought over very hard

*there are tons and tons of people willing to go to war with us they say so we will attack them right now here in Florida. But his relatives are entombed they say and one of them is supposedly going to be the movie a spaghetti western and it's not true it's one of your girls. His are in The matrix in Australia almost all of them.

Hahaha LOL I left the Best for last. Oh and crass a****** Neo you better get down there before someone imitates Jesus Christ like Jesus Christ

My son changed my verbiage I was going to say you better get down there before someone imitates that guy no before he gets out and is that guy so he's smirking cuz it's answering both

There anything characters they get found out and most of the characters are not famous anymore because of them

Thor Freya

Gross, you're eliminating characters by accident because your stupid

Hera Zues

We approve these messages they're going out now

Olympus

[oneinathousandwords-blog]

If You’re Obsessive and You Know it Clap Your Hands! **clapclap**

11/28-29/2017

Well look everyone, it’s your favorite masochistic Yu-Gi-Oh! theorist here. Ready for another round of ‘questions without answers that I make up answers for research hard and draw conclusions for’? ‘Cause I know I am!

Today I’m going to be visiting a different Duel Monster that was formerly human than my usual  Kisara (although everything I say here will mostly apply to her as well.) Just because of the multiplicity of examples, I’ll be working with Black Magician Girl/Mana today.

My question that I’m beating to death against a brick wall is this: Is Yugi’s Black Magician Girl really Mana reincarnated, or just her ka? Also, if this card is herself, not her ka, how do we explain the existence of both an Apprentice Illusion Magician and a Black Magician Girl, since both seem to be Mana’s spirit?

Well, we’re going to have to go in deep for this one. Our story begins with the Millennium Ring. Thief King Bakura took it from Mahad, of course, but in the manga, Mana was given control of it after Seto was crowned Pharaoh.

The Millennium Ring had many abilities, as did all the other Millennium Items, but its primary function was the ability to seal pieces of one’s soul into other objects. Mahad fused his ba and his ka to form the Black Magician using the ring, and, presumably, Mana did the same thing to form Yugi’s Black Magician Girl. But how do we explain this?

How can Mana’s spirit (her fused ba/ka) exist in two places at once?

(Like I said, we’re going in deep.) When you die, your ba and ka are supposed to fuse to create the Akh. Your ba is your personality. Your ka is what keeps you alive. A Duel Monster is ‘supposed’ to be merely your ka, but in Mahad’s case, it was an incarnation of his Akh.

In other words, you can have a monster that is just your ka, but influenced by your ba OR a monster that is both ka and ba.

Hold that thought. We’ll get back to it later.

Have you ever been away from someone for a really long time, then you met them again, and they were like a completely different person? Well, in the Duel Monsters’ world, that isn’t unusual at all! In fact, your different personalities at different times have probably split off from you and become their own separate person!

Apprentice Illusion Magician (emphasis on Apprentice) is Mana when she was still Mahad’s dopey, over-exited apprentice. She had her own abilities, of course, but she was young and had a lot of work to do. Her role was mainly one of support. After Mahad died/became a Duel Monster/whatever, she gained a sense of responsibility, and learned from his example. She gained power of her own from her master’s teachings and sacrifice.

In essence, Mana became an entirely different person after Mahad’s death - and in the Duel Monster’s world, she literally became a separate person. Her ba changed, making her ka change. However, because she had the Millennium Ring, part of her old ba/ka (dopey apprentice) could be stored in a tablet. When she died, her new ka/ba were also fused with the Ring’s power, creating Black Magician Girl.

So does the same theory hold with all of the various Blue-Eyes/Blue-Eyes-like monsters and Kisara?

The short answer is no, because my theory depends on the Ring being used as a capturing device for the old, dying ba that is replaced by the new one. My best ideas for the other dragons is that (a) Kisara reincarnated at some point, and her various lives/experiences changed the dragon’s appearances and abilities {this is unlikely, but not necessarily impossible} (b) Other people similar to Kisara held these dragons’ spirits {but that would probably mean every Blue-Eyes/Blue-Eyes-like monster would have a With Eyes of Blue counterpart - and they don’t. So do only some people who hold Blue-Eyes spirits become With Eyes of Blue monsters when they die? What’s the determining factor here? Where do the With Eyes of Blue and the Blue-Eyes dragons intersect?} or (c) These are various incarnations of the BEWD itself developing, independent of a human ba or ka influencing it. {This is especially inherent with the Azure-Eyes. It’s (possibly) the BEWD fused with another monster’s spirit, presumably the White Stone of Legend/Ancients (because of their similar effects) or possibly one of the WEoB monsters (because of the intricate and unique designs on its body) [this is all still conjecture] (how many more brackets can I put in these brackets?) }

BEWD is a little harder than BMG, basically because there are so many of these dragons with a bunch of different abilities, and little focus to the archetype’s effects that could be used to tell their relationship. {For example, the With Eyes of Blue focus on targeting and tributing monsters combined with the artwork of a Mausoleum lets us know they’re offering sacrifices to the BEWD to bring forth its power}. But we have Blue-Eyes (like) cards that bring stuff back from the grave, Blue-Eyes (like) cards that you can summon when another Blue-Eyes dies, Blue-Eyes that negate effects in the Graveyard, Blue-Eyes (ish) that can kill traps/spells {but the Monster counts as a Normal type when it’s not on the field}, BLUE-EYES THAT DO EVERY FRIGGIN” THING. It’s impossible to say who meets what where and why. No solid ‘Blue-Eyes story-line’ can be teased out from all these conflicting abilities and artwork.

I’ll solve that pyramid-shaped Millennium Item another day. For now, let me know any thoughts/questions you all have on the subject. @techno-sorcerer I’m going to be your enabler again! Have fun with this new hit of masochistic happiness.

[scironex]

Failure and Succession : Sea

I bet you didn’t think you’d see the sequel.

“It makes perfect sense, in that case! If the Sheikah expected the pilots to be in serious danger from Ganon, then it of course the Divine Beasts would have an inbuilt Resurrection Shrine.” As it had turned out, Vah Medoh’s wide, lightweight structure lends it to floating on water as much as floating in air. It now rests upon Lake Totori. “Still, having facilities to recuperate from such savage wounds… It’s… Well, what it is is irrelevant. We need to visit the other Divine Beasts.” She begins to glow blue as the Sheikah Slate transports her to the Akh Va’quot shrine. “I’ll meet you at the Rito Stable.”

Link arrives to see Zelda engaged in conversation with none other than Revali.

“Don’t worry, Princess. I just wanted to see you off. I know I’m in no condition to be escorting royalty.” The Rito is earning some side glances from the other patrons; He’s still not wearing anything. Meeting eyes with the Hylian Champion, he says, “Finally made it up here, did you?” He breaks eye contact with an expression that could almost be mistaken for contrition.

After a moment, he speaks up in a soft tone. “...Take care of her. The world’s more dangerous than ever.” A quiet second passes. “Well, looks like Link will be picking up my slack again. Good luck, you two.” He turns and walks back to Rito Village. To himself, he murmurs, “But you won’t need it.”

The pair doesn’t even make it properly into Zora’s Domain before they’re hailed by Prince Sidon.

“Greetings! I don’t mean to be rude, but it was my impression that you weren’t to return until you’d finished work aboard Vah Medoh?”

Zelda smiles at the Zora’s boisterousness. “There were complications. Good complications, but… Well, we need to board Vah Ruta. You should come as well.”

“Aye! Link, let us go to the Reservoir lake. We will meet you there, Princess!”

Please authenticate Sheikah Slate to confirm release.

Link and Sidon stride into the core of Vah Ruta, meeting Zelda just in front of the Main Control Unit. Link draws the Master Sword. A firm discipline keeps it more than ready, but the Zora prince notices the absence of tension in his face.

As the Princess brings the Slate up to the terminal, Sidon asks, “May I ask what is being released exactly? You carry yourselves with a great gravitas.”

Sheikah Slate authenticated. Release of resurrected subject confirmed.

His heart jumps in his chest and he gasps as his breath leaves his lungs. He isn’t sure why at first. But then, time stops as the unit unfolds. A small red figure descends into Zelda’s arms. Mipha.

Zelda’s voice intrudes on his reverie. “Can you take her back to Zora’s Domain, Your Highness?”

Sidon doesn’t move. Link, with blade sheathed once more, glances over at him. A Hylian hand is set upon the Zora’s shoulder. Sidon slowly reaches up to grasp it in his own.

He speaks up after what seems like an eternity, voice so gentle it doesn’t even echo, but with perfect princely clarity. “Mipha…?”

Zelda bites her lip. She hadn’t thought of how to break the news to Sidon. What could she have said? “Hey, thanks to random chance, your sister, who died because we chose her as the pilot of a millennia-old superweapon happened to be brought back to life by that same

superweapon!” Actually, without the sarcasm, that was probably exactly what she should have said.

“Yes. She was brought back by the very same technology that returned Link to life.” Mipha is light, but Zelda isn’t particularly strong. The weight leaving her arms as Sidon lifts his sister is a relief.

Later, Link finds himself ascending the stairs to the Throne room. After an evening meal, King Dorephan had asked that he join him in his chambers. On his back, he carries the shimmering form of the Lightscale Trident. He intends to restore it to its rightful owner. Zelda, meanwhile, has retreated to one of the royal historians she knew back in the day. She’s eager to hear his stories again.

“Ah, Link. As soon as she woke, Mipha was asking after you.”

The small Zora blinks and nods her head. She lays on a small basin… bed? Filled with water that seems to sparkle a bit more than the present lighting would permit. Her body is adorned with the jewelry typical of her appearance. The only thing missing is the sash that marked her as Champion. Otherwise, it could be a hundred years ago, before the world fell to pieces.

Link removes the Zora princess’ favored weapon and offers it, taking to one knee. “Thank you, Link.” Her voice is flat and tired. An attendant gingerly grabs the weapon and leans it against a nearby pillar.

Link nods, and returns to his feet.

“It’s funny,” Mipha says, voice level, but lacking her usual regal charm. “I would never have thought we’d be able to see each other a hundred years on. Your kind doesn’t usually last that long.” Her choice of words is unusually blunt.

“Are you alright?” Link asks.

“You never spoke much before. I always enjoyed hearing it when you did.” The Hylian bites his lip.

Mipha, abandoning her attempt to find a way to word what she meant, lets out a pleading tone. “Did you move on, after the Great Calamity? I didn’t.”

“In more ways than one.” Link realizes how violently inappropriate that remark was, but he can’t take it back. He expects her to frown, or maybe cry, or possibly take it in stride as she so often did.

He does not expect her to laugh. “I suppose so. There was still work for me to do, with Ganon’s threat on the horizon. Now, though, there’s nothing left. It’s been slain, we are at peace, and all that remains is to move forward.

“Perhaps that’s why I can’t stop thinking about it. I have always put the greater good before myself, but right now, that greater good to pursue. There are no issues for which my people need guidance. There are no threats to be fought and won against. All that’s left is the scars to see in the water’s reflection.

“I accepted what the world had to become knowing that I would be leaving it behind. Now I’m here, the Zora Princess, and there’s nothing I can do. I can pilot Vah Ruta, but there’s only so much an endless supply of water can do. I can lead my people, but they’re busy repairing our home. I was trapped within that beast for a hundred years, unable to help anyone. That was because I failed; Fine, I knew the consequences. But now I’m back. The war has been won, and in spite of my mistakes, I’ve been a second chance at life.

“But for what? My people, the Zora, cheer for my return. They fill their hearts with joy, surround me with kindness and love, but all I can see is the gaps between them. What of the soldiers who were slain trying to defend this land? What of the architects who were thrown into ruin along with their creations? What of the simple fishers, killed in the blink of an eye?

“Why should I be allowed to live?! Why am I to survive my fate when thousands of others have to keep theirs? And those who survived them have to bear the weight of their loss? Why am I pardoned and forgiven for the gravitas of my weakness when so many others were taken for no fault of theirs?”

Her breathing is pained and unsteady as she closes her eyes.. The attendant - who is not nearly old enough to have been alive before Mipha’s death - stands to attention immediately.

Dorephan preempts him. “I’m sorry, child, but you need to rest. Link, thank you for returning the Trident. For now, though, you should make your leave.”

Zelda sits underneath the Zora’s radiant city. She skips stones across the water, brow furrowed at the story Link had just shared. “I understand how she feels. It often crossed my mind in those hundred years… that I did not deserve to keep my life, when all of my friends and subjects could not. I told myself it was unfair, that I was unfit for such a redemption. It must be harder for her, though, being surrounded by people who remember. People who had to suffer the loss of loved ones directly.”

Link looks out across the rippling waters. Unlike Zelda, he stands upright. Zora’s Domain is probably one of the safest locations in Hyrule, and even aside that, the land is safer than it’s been in a hundred years. It’s not something he’s willing to risk, though, especially not with the Yiga Clan still lurking in the shadows.

This vigilance is probably why he picks up on the quiet footsteps approaching them first. Zelda, catching his sudden alertness, stands up to follow his gaze.

“Prince Sidon. Greetings.”

“Salutations, Your Highness Zelda. I’m pleased I’m not the only one who finds this to be a very good hiding spot.”

The princess laughs. “I mean no offense; We simply had things to discuss that weren’t appropriate for the public air.”

“None taken! I trust that you’ve been enjoying your excursion to our beautiful home?” “Of course. It’s always a pleasure.” She brings her hands together. “If I may… How is Mipha faring?”

Sidon’s eyes fall slightly. “As it stands, she will return to full health shortly.” Slowly, as if chewing his words, he says, “By my memory, and my father’s, never once has she been, well, upset.” After a pause, he perks up, and changes tack. “Ah, but I had forgotten why I sought you out in the first place. My father, King Dorephan, has prepared lodging for the both of you.”

Zelda makes to speak, but instead purses her lips. The non-answer is frustrating; She’s concerned for her health as well. But she trusted that Sidon meant well, and wouldn’t hold back if he had the option. She nods and follows him to the mentioned room.

If you look into the night sky and stare for long enough, it’s possible to forget that there’s ground beneath you in Zora’s Domain. The air is crisp and humid. Stars smatter the black velvet sky. Distant waterfalls drown out any quiet noises. It makes the inability to sleep that night much more bearable for Link. He stands just outside the room prepared for him, trying to form a thought. The task is harder than it sounds.

“I take it you are not able to sleep either?” Link’s posture tightens as he experiences a sudden crash to earth. Blinking, he turns to face the voice of the young Zora Champion. “I’m fine, trust me. I suppose you don’t need me to apologize for the outburst earlier, but I feel contrite regardless. Thank you, again, for returning my trident.” Formalities taken care of, Mipha drops her hands to her side. Link speaks up. “Welcome back.”

She laughs slightly at that. “In spite of everything, I believe I’m glad to be back.”

His response comes faster than she anticipates. “Your return made quite the splash.”

She’s stunned.

“Everyone seems happy to have you back. I guess it would be kind of shellfish if they didn’t, but I can’t imagine the clam-or is enjoyable.” “Link… You’re making jokes. You never made jokes.”

He smiles. The gesture is sincere, but Mipha could see something else behind it.

“I can tell you’re happy, but is something the matter?”

The Hylian’s eyes fall just a bit, then he responds. “You asked if I moved on. I thought you meant… over you.”

“Ah. I hadn’t considered… That. Still, I never did present the Zora Armor to you. If I really meant it… If I had been certain, I would have done so.”

His teeth dig into his lip. “It was- A hundred years ago, we were all preparing to fight Ganon. We would win, then there would be time to decide how I felt. I still don’t know.”

“Link, that’s fine. I know this isn’t an easy choice - Zelda has eyes for you, too, and I can’t imagine you have none for her. Goddess willing, you will have years and decades to figure it out. And that’s how it should be.” There’s a stability in her eyes that could settle the most wavering heart. “I would like to know the answer to the question I did ask, however.”

A curled lip is the first reply to her question. A downcast gaze is the second. “It’s easier without everyone expecting the world of me.”

“I know, thousands of Zora used to have their gaze on me when I was Champion.”

Link shakes his head. “There were millions of Hylians.”

It’s difficult to believe, but he is not lying.

“I always wanted to be a knight. I never expected to be chosen by the sword.” His lips twist, as if trying to pull the words from the air in front of him.

“And there were suddenly so many more things you had to live up to.” He nods.

“I suppose I had always been groomed to be a leader. Such an honor is… Well, beyond the comprehension of a normal mind. I can’t grasp the idea of a thousand frogs, much less the idea of a thousand lives, all of which I am responsible for. The role of Champion isn’t that much higher on a scale of impossibilities.”

Link shakes his head. “The Champions were forgotten. I was forgotten.” His words aren’t said with sorrow, but relief. “I don’t have to be a hero.”

“You mean… You prefer it… this way?” Mipha asks, gently closing her hands.

Link doesn’t answer.

[the-hiltless-swordsman]

Entry #29: Akh Afah

Prompt #29: Prophecy

“Tell me why create, a circle none can break

Why must you let go, the life you were bestowed

This I fear I'll never know.”

-Final Fantasy XIV, Dragonsong

“How long can we keep doing this, Syerah?”  Eoiel said, slumped into the curvature of feelings he shared with so few.  “Raising them up to their feet so they can burn themselves away and keep the light shining a little longer?”

She did not know what to say.  She did not know the answer either.

“This is how it is.” said the white woman to the swordsman.  She didn’t have any words beyond that.  She just shrugged, but there was a momentous collapsing of weight, like the entire world was shifting off their shoulders and into someone else’s lap.

He understood. This was how it was.  So he took a deep breath and held it for a moment.  He let his lungs take in every last drop of life they could from the air before he exhaled and picked himself up.

“It won’t be like this forever.”  She said. “One day, things will change. They’ll have to.”  They stood directly at eye level with each other, on the same plane.  “But until then, this is how it is.  We have a job to do.”

[bookingtripsbg]

And there, alone and weak

And I…” The dry voice trembled, really one thing had damaged in it. “And I… do you suppose I discover it straightforward? As if I didn’t see that some sorrow is gnawing at you and what’s it? And I, your father, have no idea what it’s. Is it proper that it must be so?”

Vera was silent. Father Ignatius very cautiously stroked his beard, as if afraid that his fingers would enmesh themselves involuntarily in it, and continued:

“In opposition to my want you went to St. Petersburg did I pronounce a curse upon you, you who disobeyed me? Or did I not provide you with cash? Or, you`ll say, I’ve not been variety? Nicely, why then are you silent? There, you`ve had your St. Petersburg!”

Father Ignatius turned silent, and a picture arose earlier than him of one thing big, of granite, and horrible, filled with invisible risks and unusual and detached folks. And there, alone and weak, was his Vera and there they’d misplaced her. An terrible hatred towards that horrible and mysterious metropolis grew within the soul of Father Ignatius, and an anger towards his daughter who was silent, obstinately silent.

“St. Petersburg has nothing to do with it,” stated Vera, morosely, and closed her eyes. “And nothing is the matter with me. Higher go to mattress. it’s late.”

Little daughter

I “Verochka,” whimpered her mom. “Little daughter, do confess to me.” “Akh, mamma!” impatiently Vera interrupted her.

Father Ignatius sat down on a chair and laughed.

“Nicely, then it`s nothing?” he inquired, satirically.

“Father,” sharply put in Vera, elevating herself from the pillow, “you realize that I really like you and mom. Nicely, I do really feel slightly weary. However that can move. Do fall asleep, and I additionally want to sleep. And to-morrow, or another time, we`ll have a chat.”

Father Ignatius impetuously arose in order that the chair hit the wall, and took his spouse`s hand.

“Allow us to go.”

“Verochka!”

“Allow us to go, I inform you!” shouted Father Ignatius. “If she has for-gotten God, we could…”

Virtually forcibly he had led Olga Stepanovna out of the room, and after they descended the steps, his spouse, reducing her gait, stated in a harsh whisper:

“It was you, priest, who’ve made her such. From you she realized her methods. And also you`ll reply for it. Akh, sad creature that I’m!”

And she or he wept, and, as her eyes stuffed with tears, her foot, lacking a Step, would descend with a sudden, jolt, as if she had been wanting to fall into some existent abyss beneath.

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And there, alone and weak

And I…” The dry voice trembled, really one thing had damaged in it. “And I… do you assume I discover it straightforward? As if I didn’t see that some sorrow is gnawing at you and what’s it? And I, your father, have no idea what it’s. Is it proper that it must be so?”

Vera was silent. Father Ignatius very cautiously stroked his beard, as if afraid that his fingers would enmesh themselves involuntarily in it, and continued:

“In opposition to my want you went to St. Petersburg did I pronounce a curse upon you, you who disobeyed me? Or did I not offer you cash? Or, you`ll say, I’ve not been variety? Nicely, why then are you silent? There, you`ve had your St. Petersburg!”

Father Ignatius grew to become silent, and a picture arose earlier than him of one thing large, of granite, and horrible, stuffed with invisible risks and unusual and detached individuals. And there, alone and weak, was his Vera and there they’d misplaced her. An terrible hatred in opposition to that horrible and mysterious metropolis grew within the soul of Father Ignatius, and an anger in opposition to his daughter who was silent, obstinately silent.

“St. Petersburg has nothing to do with it,” stated Vera, morosely, and closed her eyes. “And nothing is the matter with me. Higher go to mattress. it’s late.”

Little daughter

I “Verochka,” whimpered her mom. “Little daughter, do confess to me.” “Akh, mamma!” impatiently Vera interrupted her.

Father Ignatius sat down on a chair and laughed.

“Nicely, then it`s nothing?” he inquired, paradoxically.

“Father,” sharply put in Vera, elevating herself from the pillow, “you already know that I really like you and mom. Nicely, I do really feel just a little weary. However that can move. Do fall asleep, and I additionally want to sleep. And to-morrow, or another time, we`ll have a chat.”

Father Ignatius impetuously arose in order that the chair hit the wall, and took his spouse`s hand.

“Allow us to go.”

“Verochka!”

“Allow us to go, I inform you!” shouted Father Ignatius. “If she has for-gotten God, we could…”

Nearly forcibly he had led Olga Stepanovna out of the room, and after they descended the steps, his spouse, lowering her gait, stated in a harsh whisper:

“It was you, priest, who’ve made her such. From you she realized her methods. And also you`ll reply for it. Akh, sad creature that I’m!”

And he or she wept, and, as her eyes stuffed with tears, her foot, lacking a Step, would descend with a sudden, jolt, as if she have been desirous to fall into some existent abyss beneath.

[winterstorm032802]

Two Egis

Nora: Alphinaud get close!

Alphinaud: *goes to Nora's side* What now?

Nora: Careful of the flames and beams

Alphinaud: Wha--

Nora: *summons Bahamut and Phoenix* Come to my aid as we may fight as one!

Bahamut: *roars as it spreads it's wings*

Phoenix: *screeches as it let's out a burst of flames around Alphinaud and Nora*

Nora: NOW!

Bahamut: *uses Akh Morn*

Phoenix: *uses Revelation*

Nora: *grits her teeth slightly trembling*

Alphinaud: *looks at Nora's arms* (She's pushing herself too much) Nora--

Nora: Don't

Alphinaud: What?

Nora: Don't tell me to stop, I know what I'm doing and I know the consequences so unless you wish to say anything then pray let me do this! I've managed before and I can do it again!

Alphinaud: *eyes widen and he nods* Then let me help you at the very least *holds his hand out close to her Arcane book and lends his Aether*

Nora: *takes a deep breath in and grins* Thank you *expands her energy and magic* ALPHINAUD NOW!

Alphinaud: *keeps going* I got you!

Bahamut & Phoenix: *combines Akh Morn and Revelation together*

Nora: *eyes gleam against the flames as she shouts*

The battlefield is cleared of anyone else

Nora: *breathes heavy as she falls to the ground* A-Are you alright?

Alphinaud: Nothing some rest won't fix, as for you, when could you do that?

Nora: Honestly I went on a whim here we were surrounded bad and I guess my Egis called out to me?

Alphinaud: A Summoner is tied well to their Egis so it makes sense, in a desperate time they called to help you

Nora: T'would seem so, except for the fact that I feel like I can't move a single limb

Alphinaud: Considering you overspent most of your Aether for this, I understand now come along I'll help you *stands up and reaches his hand out*

Nora: *smiles sweetly* I, uh, truly can't move I was not exaggerating

Alphinaud: O-Oh! *carries Nora in his arms* We should make it back soon

Nora: *nods* Thank you

~

Alisaie: Alphinaud! GUYS HE'S HERE! *goes to Alphinaud* H-- Nora?

Nora: Hi

Alisaie: Can you move?

Nora: Not a single bit

Alisaie: I see, well what happened? We lost you two and no one could find out where you went

Nora: We were surrounded

Alphinaud: And a very reckless Warrior decided to summon two strong Egis at the same time and obliterated them

Nora: *blushes* I mean we won

Alphinaud: You almost died

Nora: Heard that line already, I am a chaotic Miqo'te

Alphinaud: *chuckles* True, now how about we get some rest

Nora: That sounds nice

Alphinaud: *walks to Dawn's Respite and lies Nora down* All-- *flinches and stumbles*

Nora: Alphinaud!?

Alphinaud: I-It seems the affects of lending my Aether has taken it's toll, nothing to worry about *sits down on the other bed* I'll be well and then we can get back

Nora: Yep

A pounding kick is heard

Nora: *sweatdrops* Oh Gods

Y'Shtola: WHY IN THE SEVEN HELLS DID YOU SPEND SO MUCH AETHER?!

Nora: Tell my story Alphinaud

Alphinaud: I-I shall

[traqtravels]

And there, alone and weak

And I…” The dry voice trembled, really one thing had damaged in it. “And I… do you assume I discover it straightforward? As if I didn’t see that some sorrow is gnawing at you and what’s it? And I, your father, have no idea what it’s. Is it proper that it must be so?”

Vera was silent. Father Ignatius very cautiously stroked his beard, as if afraid that his fingers would enmesh themselves involuntarily in it, and continued:

“In opposition to my want you went to St. Petersburg did I pronounce a curse upon you, you who disobeyed me? Or did I not offer you cash? Or, you`ll say, I’ve not been variety? Nicely, why then are you silent? There, you`ve had your St. Petersburg!”

Father Ignatius grew to become silent, and a picture arose earlier than him of one thing large, of granite, and horrible, stuffed with invisible risks and unusual and detached individuals. And there, alone and weak, was his Vera and there they’d misplaced her. An terrible hatred in opposition to that horrible and mysterious metropolis grew within the soul of Father Ignatius, and an anger in opposition to his daughter who was silent, obstinately silent.

“St. Petersburg has nothing to do with it,” stated Vera, morosely, and closed her eyes. “And nothing is the matter with me. Higher go to mattress. it’s late.”

Little daughter

I “Verochka,” whimpered her mom. “Little daughter, do confess to me.” “Akh, mamma!” impatiently Vera interrupted her.

Father Ignatius sat down on a chair and laughed.

“Nicely, then it`s nothing?” he inquired, paradoxically.

“Father,” sharply put in Vera, elevating herself from the pillow, “you already know that I really like you and mom. Nicely, I do really feel just a little weary. However that can move. Do fall asleep, and I additionally want to sleep. And to-morrow, or another time, we`ll have a chat.”

Father Ignatius impetuously arose in order that the chair hit the wall, and took his spouse`s hand.

“Allow us to go.”

“Verochka!”

“Allow us to go, I inform you!” shouted Father Ignatius. “If she has for-gotten God, we could…”

Nearly forcibly he had led Olga Stepanovna out of the room, and after they descended the steps, his spouse, lowering her gait, stated in a harsh whisper:

“It was you, priest, who’ve made her such. From you she realized her methods. And also you`ll reply for it. Akh, sad creature that I’m!”

And he or she wept, and, as her eyes stuffed with tears, her foot, lacking a Step, would descend with a sudden, jolt, as if she have been desirous to fall into some existent abyss beneath.