@dbai asked: Didn’t anybody ever tell you, promises can be broken? / hhhh i’m ready to die
✼ ✼ ✼ ASK THE NOVELIST /// ACCEPTING.
--- ❝ T-Touya... ❞ Voice was HAGGARD and drawn with evident AGONY, barely heard over the SPITTING of the blue flames that raged in the undergrowth a mere few feet away ; she could feel the PAIN radiating from the trees, fingertips itching with the desire to HEAL but her heart & mind beckoning her to stay within HIS vicinity. There staggering familiarity of that cerulean gaze ; once so full of MISCHIEF & DELIGHT, now swirled with a coldness that elicited shivers to wrack along the length of her spine. Gone was the merriment of his smile, that fiery hair that reminded her of the poppy flowers she so deeply adored --- all that remained was a towering figure mutilated by BURNS & scars of age - old torment and Emily knew, she simply KNEW, it was all self - inflicted.
Touya had never liked the way he looked ; reminiscent of his father, the man who had been a source of TERROR for him since the day he was born.
Her friend, though...to Emily, he had been BEAUTIFUL.
❝ B-But ours shouldn’t be broken...It can’t be... ❞ Her heart was tightening within the confines of her chest ; wrought with SADNESS and such solemnity appeared within her amber gaze, tears threatening to burst free ( though she refused to break eye contact ). The fire, derived from the POWER of his impressive quirk, encroached ever closer --- the heat of it licking the backs of her legs but Emily paid little heed to its advance. HE was all that mattered --- he would always matter and that would never change. ❝ You were my f-friend...My best friend and I have never forgotten you...So, why? ❞ So many questions BURNED to be set free ; an array of demands that bubbled with both sadness and ANGER for what he had done. She felt betrayed, ABANDONED, and he HAD to have known that she would miss him TERRIBLY --- ❝ Why did you leave? Why did you...did you do this? ❞ Stumbling steps were taken and the resounding shouts of the children, the ones in her CARE, echoed but...her SELFISHNESS had taken a rare hold and all she craved was answers ; even if she was to be devoured by his own flames, it did not matter....as long as she knew WHY.
That very inferno began to singe away at the ends of her flowing skirt but, still, Emily would not relent. Small fists clenched at her sides and the petite line of her shoulders shook with the sudden emittance of a CRY. ❝ Why did you do this to yourself? I can see how lonely you are, Touya...but you were never alone. I was there...and I am sorry that I was not enough. I am so sorry. ❞
