Season of The Witch

Carol Maria Drew.

"I wish you would just leave, finally."

"I could never give you what you needed."

"What? You still care about me? Fuck you."

"You used to be so good. Now look at you."

"You still deserve to be loved. Just not by me."

"I never thought I'd see you here... what a shame."

"Is that all we are now? Enemies? Or worse, strangers?"

"All our history and I wish I could burn it away, for good."

"I used to trust you. Used to, being the operative words."

"You betrayed me. That's not just something you forgive."

"Look at what you've become… and you wonder why I left."

"Wait, are we fighting or flirting? It's very hard to tell these days."

"We could've been something special, you know? Now look at us."

"Some part of me still wants to forgive you. Even after everything."

"I can't believe they paired us up together, even with our… history."

"I hear things have been going well for you. Must've repaired your karma."

"I shouldn't even be jealous, you're not even mine anymore. You never were."

"I still don't know what happened to us… how did all that love turn into hate?"

"I know you still hate me, I don't blame you for that. But, I still need your help."

"There was once a time I would've given my life for you. Now I just don't care."

"I wish this had ended on better terms. No changing the past, though, I guess."

"You scream so loudly about how much you hate me. But, you don't. Not really."

"You don't really loathe me. You can't. Not after everything we've been through."

"I don't think this was ever love. I think it was always hatred, we just didn't see it."

"I'm only here out of necessity. When it's all over, I never want to see your face, again."

"I still think about you all the time... mostly about all the terrible things I hope befall you."

"You left nothing but chaos in your wake. I've just cleaned it all up... don't bring all that back."

"You were so scared to lose me, you always said that. Not too scared to do that, though."

the exhausted

“I can’t sleep.”

“I can’t keep my eyes open.”

“Can you help me back to bed?”

“I’m okay. I’m not even that tired.”

“I don’t remember the last time I slept.”

“I can’t sleep, yet. There’s too much to do.” 

“I don’t want to sleep. I keep having nightmares.”

“I promise I’ll sleep in a bit, just let me finish this, first.”

“Can you help me lie down? I can’t move, I’m too tired.”

“I can’t even think straight anymore… maybe I need to sleep.”

“Of course I want to relax. But, we don’t all get what we want.”

“I’m so tired I can’t do anything, but I’m not tired enough to sleep…”

the concerned

“You keep yawning.”

“Go. Sleep. That’s not a request.”

“If you’re that tired, just take a nap.”

“You look like you haven’t slept in days.”

“Why didn’t you tell me you were this tired?”

“Those are some bad bags under your eyes.”

“You don’t have to push so hard. It’s okay to rest.”

“You can barely keep your eyes open, go lie down.”

“I haven’t seen you sleeping in a long time, what’s up?”

“I just had to stop you from toppling over. You’re not okay.”

“With everything you’ve been through lately, of course you’re tired.”

“I heard you thrashing around last night. Nightmares? Is that why you’re so tired?”

“You know, you keep fretting over everyone else, but you won’t even take a second to relax, yourself.”

misc

(doze) : one muse falls asleep on the other’s shoulder

(tuck) : one muse finds the other passed out onto the bed, and tucks them in

(collapsed) : one muse finds the other passed out on the floor from exhaustion

(carry) : one muse finds the other after they’ve fallen asleep on a chair / couch, and carries them to bed 

(cover) : one muse finds the other asleep somewhere other than bed and covers them with a blanket / their jacket

(assist) : one muse finds the other so tired they’re having trouble standing and helps them walk somewhere to lie down

"And empty words are evil..."

"Why so much grief for me?"

"We will never be here, again."

"We men are wretched things."

"His descent was like nightfall."

"I say no wealth is worth my life!"

"I'd punish you, if I had the power."

"Is he not sacred, even to the gods?"

"Even a fool may be wise after the event."

"There will be killing 'til the score is paid."

"My every impulse bends to what is right."

"You will never be lovelier than you are now."

"And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it."

"The blade, itself, incites to deeds of violence."

"You must endure and not be broken-hearted."

"Death and the strong force of fate are waiting."

"You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter?"

"I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this."

"I promise you I will do everything just as you ask."

"If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also."

"He lacks the sense to see a day behind, a day ahead."

"You wine sack, with a dog's eyes, with a deer's heart."

"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men."

"Come, friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so?"

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

"Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."

"Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us."

"Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this."

"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun their destiny."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us."

"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions?"

"The lover’s whisper, irresistible… magic to make the sanest man go mad."

"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery…"

"What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?"

"You’d run no risk of death; you lack the heart to last it out in combat, coward!"

"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move on earth, none is more to be pitied than a man."

"The proud heart feels not terror, nor turns to run... and it is his own courage that kills him."

"Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

          ✘   D E A T H X D E F I E D ✘

                                                Multi Muse feat. Alice Angel                                            From Bendy And The Ink Machine                                                     First Drawn since 2017

Butch the Berry, or someone else from the rubberhose crew, in 13 ?

(Happy New Year! Thanks for sharing your art with us 🩵)

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