[ AID ] and [ ALONE ] mwah mwah. ╱ source , open , @hellborus
where lays the depraved, is where the blood flows. wretched, an abomination, sole two words that cross the mind. she melts away into the spiral of thoughts, a tornado is in her head and relief shall never arrive, nothing shall ever quell. this is not her first, and most likely not her last. yet the life grasped in the palm of her hand and shatter were never so vivid, never so tangible. it is different, from being between a cyberspace to the real -- it is not a construct, nor a cruel joke on her expense. she is equipped with a deadly weapon that is harmful just as her intellect, and what does she use it for ?
for annihilation and catastrophe alone.
crimson was never a color that suited her. she wears so with shame, as it stains her bright clothes. they must burn now, to the very last fiber until all of the ignominy burns into flames and turns into ashes. she stands there with enfeebled knees, uncertain whether to grasp onto something before a collapse or whether to pull herself onto the floor, hoping that to simply sprawl there lifelessly would cast away all this desolation. there is nothing left in her to endure this, and she does not wish to find the resources to do so. no more endurance. if one cannot feel consequence, can they feel anything at all ? and if so, will their crimes be forgiven ?
he pulls her away from the misery and confusion, wrapping tightly alike a suffocating snake around her throat. even in this state, she manages to neutralize the room’s defenses so that he may pass the threshold without harm -- yet the sight that her eyes catch is no succor in quelling these erratic palpitations and ache. and instantaneously, she heaves a defeated exhale -- that as if to state, ‘ you, too ? ’ in all this crimson smeared across his features. his exhausted and strict features, fine lines filled with a color surprisingly and woefully suiting him. with eyebrows furrowed upwards in desolation and dolor, with the exhale given, her shoulders fall softly -- everything in her caves to his presence... and yet she feels so lonely, she pulls him inside. frail fingers that can barely halt her quivering, although not as noticeable as prior -- she motions them into the shower. but nothing can clean them of the blood on their hands.
not even the gushing of hot water can burn away the sensation of viscidity of carmine against her skin. the echoes of droplets of water against the tiles cannot overweight the repeated sounds of their harrowed squalls in her head. why did they have to part ? why did they have to go each on their own way ? whichever excuse they had to completing this mission faster if they were to split, felt futile. for yevgeniya had never felt more alone in this world. more cold and lonely.
it is because she’s lost control. she has never been in a position of absolute lawlessness, of raw luck and instincts -- ego is a code, a program, an engram, a construct, the malware in your home office... ego is not a fragile girl, shattered to the bone by ceaseless pleads of mercy and she does not put her faith in the hands of her survival instincts. it is always calculated to the very last percentage.
albeit, perhaps yevgeniya evidently is...
the stream of water down her face, down her back, it washes the crimson into a roseate hue. but it does not wash away her tears, bottled in her eyes and quivering over the edge -- conspicuous, prodigious drops, she feels ludicrous. how many lives has her occupation extracted ? just as it was not a surgical and distant procedure now, it abruptly becomes all too overwhelming and consuming ? how piteous.
cautious, studious eyes examine each curve and muscle. there is a cut under his left bicep, and at his shoulder. sedulous manner of the fingers that trail across the cuts seems to disconcert only momentarily, from the void of ordeal in her head. ever so gentle, as if focusing on the warmth of his injured flesh could somehow divert her from the grave hole in her chest -- the loss of control, how colossal this feeling of helplessness is... it is all because of him. and even with blurred vision she can still follow her fingertips over his flesh, cleaning the cuts, and having only one thought in her mind ; it is all his fault.
she has never lost control until their paths have crossed. he is to blame for her mind’s gradual derail.
perhaps, he had become the malware in her brain.