#death arc

this ones for the ex. spn fans </333333

She gets the news from Callahan.

Alyssa would have liked to say it was hard to believe, but an event like this is the reason she left in the first place. Callahan still travels back to check on their old friends, but it was Alyssa’s choice to completely distance herself from the server. 

It was hard to watch, when the people she loved were drawing lines in the dirt and leaping at each other’s throats. She’d blame that Wilbur man if not for the fact she knew her boys had it in them all along. Hunters, all of them. (And it’s not like she’s never heard the call of fire, of war before. That’s why she ran.)

She and Tommy weren’t close. They only got along in rare moments, but those were always punctuated by the awkwardness he kept as a wall up between them. Always awkward or angry, never candid, never calm. But Alyssa was always willing to put up with him, to be kind to the boy who tried so hard to speak in learned violence. She had enough patience for the both of them. 

She gave him a poppy once, because she had seen how his eyes softened ever so slightly as they looked out at the clusters of dandelions scattered along the hills. (She saw him later, hands stained yellow and black, a new wall proudly dividing them from the greater Dream SMP.)

The fire was something they would have done in the early days, when it was just fun and games, no hard feelings. But in their new world, it became an act of war. That’s when Alyssa knew it was over. That the ball was in motion and going too fast to stop, so it was either get out or get lost in the crossfire.

Never more has she hated being right.

There’s a field of poppies by her new house.

Five Reasons to Jump on Discworld’s Death Books

That I am a fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld you all probably know by now. Even so I haven’t gotten around to reading them all. Not even halfway there. Luckily there are various arcs throughout the 41 books so I can at least feel like I have accomplished something. Recently I read Thief of Time and with that I completed the Death arc. I started this arc back in 2014 I believe so it has been a…