@hishouse sent a letter : sound off! who's not dead?
─── prompt.
the feel of iron is acrid, cuts through even the dull that noctum settles in his senses, blunts any scent so that all he can swallow is the grit of dirt and blood mixed with the split that he can feel on his lip with his tongue. but even the sting of it means nothing, gone too with any hope of taste that the poison has swiped from his every nerve; it's working well today despite his low supply, forced to weaken the link to alune with his rations. pain has no room in his mind so it manifests instead in the unsteady way that his body rises from the mass of bodies on the ground, a creaking and uneven wind-up that betrays all of the grace and lissomeness of lunari teaching. perhaps that, too, has no room in a battlefield so far removed from his teachings that they only lead his grip and stance.
fingers hook between his teeth to whistle in response, and it's a piercing shrill that even aphelios winces against. a toy soldier's gait, straggling his body along the jagged teeth of armor that bury themselves into the dirt; the earth's maw threatens to swallow him whole but his body forces against wounds meant to drag him with these damned souls to the underworld. mother moon will protect him here, too, not quite ready to let her paradigm breathe his last breath.
' here. ' ─── aphelios signs with one hand as best he can when the other hand braces the other against his knee, looks up at the house with a scrutiny that betrays all nerve. how this creature is still alive is even beyond him. but he cannot say that he isn't a shred impressed.