XIII: DEATH

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“   Something in me wants more. I can’t rest.   ”

“   The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.  ”

“   I don’t want worship. I want understanding.   ”

“   Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.   ”

“   The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something that she may never get.   ”

“   Your heartbeats set the rhythm for my heart.   ”

“   Because you feel like home to me. That’s why I love you.   ”

“   I feel my soul drawn to you.   ”

“   I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.   ”

“   I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.   ”

“   The world either breaks or hardens the heart.   ”

“   Am I supposed to be grateful to have survived this?   ”

“   You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.   ”

“   It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.   ”

“   I have never understood where the line is drawn, between sacrifice and self-slaughter.   ”

“   Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.    ”

“   The past beats inside me like a second heart.   ”

“   My soul and yours are the same. You appear in me, I in you. We hide in each other.   ”

“   You are always haunted by the idea that you have been wasting your life.   ”

“   I am not cruel — only truthful.  ”

“   No one wearing a crown comes in the name of peace.   ”

“   I am starved for tenderness and that is what is the matter with me and has been for months.   ”

“   You? What could one more splash of blood mean to you?    ”

“   Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?   ”

“   I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.   ”

“   I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.   ”

“   I am not merciful, and I am not kind, and l am not afraid to make you wish that I was.   ”

“   It does me no good; violence has changed me.   ”

“   So heartless, yet so full of feelings.   ”

“   You blossom under kindness, don't you? Like a rose.   ”

“   All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.   ”

“   I look at you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.   ”

“   Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.   ”

“   Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.   ”

“   "Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.   ”

“   We all romanticize the people we adore.   ”

“   I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.   ”

“   If you know too much, you’ll get old too soon.   ”

“   Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.   ”

“   I am tired of being brave.   ”

“   I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.   ”

“   There isn't always an explanation for everything.   ”

“   Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.   ”

“   People do not see you. They invent you and accuse you.   ”

“   Never have I dealt with anything as difficult as my own soul.   ”

“   You are a woman marked for sorrow.   ”

“   Rise up, then. Mend your ways, start seeing what you are instead of calculating what you should become.   ”

“   Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.   ”

“   Very early in my life it was too late.   ”

“   I want to change. I want to stop fear’s subtle guidance of my life.   ”

“   You misinterpret everything, even the silence.   ”

“   Lately many years have passed.   ”

“   You’ll bear it. You’ll last out. You will.   ”

So be it. His plan was already in motion anyway.

The unsuspecting slayers were sleeping in a circle around the embers of a campfire. One of them was keeping guard, or at least attempting to, their head dangerously lolling to the side in harmony with their comrade's snores.

even in his silence, his intention is all to clear to see and kokushibō inwardly sighs to herself for she is already certain kiba hasn't actually taken the time to gauge the strength of the group at all.

he truly had such a terrible habit of biting off more than he could chew. then again, he won't be given opportunity to grow and learn if she keeps swooping in to save him before kiba steps from that edge--she could practically already hear dōma lightly teasing her protective streak.

and so, though instinct urges her to intervene once more...kokushibō stays in her place, watching closely.

and ready to pounce, if this goes how she suspects it will.

they had created a family. were they happy? did she make her family members… happy? such a realisation came crashing down upon her; that demons were not unfeeling monsters like her sister's killer — but rather, beings that could fall in love.

it was so human, she didn't know what to do. her hands felt numb, breath drawing tight. they… came from humans, didn't they?

somewhere along the line, she seemed to have forgotten that fact.

though she wears the face of a ghost, vision is not stunted--she can see it, the way shinobu wavers. it seems as if she would collapse under the weight of her own realizations though kokushibō can only hazard a guess.

did it disturb her? to know these demons had a family? to know they mingled with these humans? that they are adored?

upper one would assume yes, cemented by that strained question.

"...like finding air after drowning." like even a corpse could remember how to breathe, could find a purpose and reason to do so. "and i would use myself as the shield to keep them safe."

she was sure he was here. she was positive, everything about dōma lead to this temple — but why were there children in the distance, scattered about and laughing together? she could see the demonhood in these little ones, and yet they mixed so delightedly with the human children as if nothing was different about them.

shinobu freezes — for the first time in her life, she hesitated.

she had known when shinobu drew near the moment she stepped foot upon the temple's grounds, and thus had been forced to move: there are too many followers nearby to act and yet thinly veiled warning remains--do not cause harm.

a forced sort of truce still, where she stands next to shinobu. "family? i am their mother."

how confronting it must be, to see hidden demonhood so happily playing with other children as if they were all one and the same. "...they are himiko, and hikari. i stay here with my children, their father, and their godfather."

MISCELLANEOUS PROMPTS FROM MY SPOTIFY ALL-TIME TOP SONGS PLAYLIST! ( PART 2/3 )

i hate that i'll never really know if you're telling the truth.

one perfect night's not enough.

this will pass like the weather.

we make the ground our grave by layin' in it.

i'm just trying to find my purpose.

i spoke the words, but never gave a thought to what they all could mean.

all i want is another try.

we won't live too long, so let's love for one song.

the stars look very different today.

are you tired of being alone?

i hope you get your ballroom floor, your perfect house with rose red doors.

i'll do my best to stay out of your way.

i believed you were crazy.

i got your initials inside a heart tattoo.

i didn't mean to call you that.

i'm sorry i don't laugh at the right times.

in a little while, i'll be gone.

i guess what's done is done.

i know a place, and it ain't too far.

maybe this is what i get for leaving you out in the cold.

your voice is the perfect sound.

i think you ought to stay away from here.

tell me everything that bothers you.

i miss you like a little kid.

there's nobody who can set me right.

i can't let you take the blame today.

now all your love is wasted.

haven't been at home in more years than i care to say.

a dream is all i have.

i'm so bored that i'd be entertained by a linoleum floor.

they always say it's clear to see how parts of you shine through in me.

you and all your friends were all right about me all along.

i still don't know how i even survive.

if you really love me, you should want the best for me.

i can't help that you're led astray.

i should have been there when you needed a friend.

don't you think i know exactly where i stand?

we can escape now.

just my type yeah yeah~