and for a brief weeks, it was. the wonders of the outside world seemed limitless ! and kindness was bigger than malice in the people he’d meet. he couldn’t wait to tell them about all the nice people that’d lend a hand to help him out, answer his questions or give him suggestions to a variety of doctors . . .
suddenly, he felt many things; one of them being incredibly ignorant.
those words echo through the fire that spread inside his mind, thorough his body, injecting poison into a pounding, aching heart. it was as loud as drums, as lighting bolts and thunder all together. the mere sound of a raging heart beating mercilessly against the bones it was caged in muffled the sounds around him, the flames that burned within irises erasing the world around him. only one thing existed; the storm of feelings that would leave behind a ravaged soul, and the news article before him.
the pureblood members of the kurta clan. eyes gouged out. sit facing each other. beheaded.
black market. high price. brilliant shade of red. merciless wounds on the children. parents.
it was too much for him to process. the only answer he could manage was to tremble and fall to his knees as legs became unable to hold his weight up. wide eyes pierced onto the ground beneath him between the fingers of a shaky head that pressed against his face. tears burned against pale skin, mouth agape as he struggled for air, the brightest of scarlet burning furiously in a tiny, scared pair of eyes. fingers clutched at the dirt - as well as his face - thoughts crashing wildly against each other inside his skull. it’s going to break. there was nothing such as calming himself down, or getting back to his senses to acknowledge the reality that surrounded him. i am going to break. yet that was the last thing he wanted to do. this cruel reality was too much for him, he couldn’t possibly even believe he was able to gain the slightest bits of control right now. i am breaking. why me – why me. WHY ME. WHY HIM. OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT PEOPLE. WHY DIDN’T I-----.
as soon as air ( uneven, ragged, quickly, he’s going to pass out ) returns to his lungs, the blackness that covered his sight slowly fades away. a red liquid spreading out on the ground, surrounding his fist, is the first thing his gaze meets with, along with the countless drops that soaked the floor.
it hurts. it hurts. it’s not real. this is not real. it can’t be real. i’m looking for a doctor for pairo. i’ll come back and the doctor will heal his legs and eyes. we’ll go to the outside world together then and we’ll become hunters. together. we’ll be together.
it hurt —– it hurt —– it only felt pain —– it was buried in nothing but sorrow forever more — his heart, that is.
it was stitched together with worn out threads with only one purpose. it grew cold, wrapped around an immense grief. its beats became empty, nothing but wrath filling what once was filled with hope and love. he let his body burn like never before.
their blood, their tears nor gold; none of it would make it better.
years only made a broken, barely pumping organ grow tired of the wrath that’d keep driving him deeper into hell, to where the light didn’t reach anymore.
and he sits alone in the center of a quiet room, eyelids closing of soft red eyes.