It hurts! (heirtothecitadel)
16. Your muse has been beaten to near death by thugs. My muse drove them off, but it may be too late.
A chorus of agonized groans, pierced by exhilarating gunshots to quiet the serenades, still sounded. The Immortan had received word raiders were spotted near the Citadel, Corpus’ scope had seen more.
“Hela!” Roared the Warlord, not even bothering to step over the dying bodies that his Boys were eagerly looting. Blonde hair spun up as he looked this way and that, until he spotted a matching white-blonde patch. Matted with blood. Storming over and dropping to his knees next to his daughter, he somewhat ungently pulled her head into his knees. “Hela! Speak to me!”
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After stitching up the gashes, Organic was a blur of checking the blood drip from the poor, whimpering Blood Bag, dabbing at the patchy dried blood with a wet rag and smoothing uncolored ointment here and there with his grubby fingers. After that, the loathed Mechanic retreated to a low shelf, tinkering sounds coming from behind his sloped form. When he returned, it was with a syringe of grease-colored liquid which he unceremoniously plunged into Hela’s slight arm.
“For the pain,” Organic rasped, that disturbing smirk tugging at one corner of his chapped lips.
Onward Joe lumbered down the cleared path, deftly disguising His ever-present slight limp as a headstrong strut. His aging body was finally turning on His ancient war wounds. When He arrived, it was with wide eyes of His own - those powder blue irises - Joe might as well have been staring in a mirror.
“Boy!” The Warlord hailed, unnecessarily loud and setting his sights on the child below him, and ignoring the crone. For now. “Do you know, who I am?”
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Though the pain was great and she wanted nothing more than to let the drug ease the discomfort, Hela nearly pushing the needle away, her hands clenching as the liquid disappeared into her arm. “No...” She gripped the edges of the table once the needle was removed, her vision swimming with a fatigue-induced euphoria as she tried to stand up. The pain was eased, enough that her body was willing to sleep to regain her strength.
But she couldn’t. Not when there was still her son to find.
Standing tall despite his terror, the boy gulped as he was addressed, jaw clenching as the Immortan shouted so loudly at him. Part of him wondered if he spoke so loudly because he was old and going deaf, like he’d seen happen to many of the people down here. But he nodded, shaggy hair obscuring his eyes for a moment before he pushed the errant locks away.
“You’re Immortan Joe.” He spoke softly, glancing away to his guardian. The old woman looked ready to rush the War Boys and snatch her ward away. But he couldn’t let that happen. They’d tear her to shreds. “You own everything an’ everyone.”
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