Screenshots for chapter 6 of my ffxiv fanfic📙
«Another Nightmare and a Heart-to-Heart»
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At that exact moment, the platform beneath my feet finally collapsed into the abyss, and I tore myself out of the nightmare with a soundless scream that caught like a lump in my parched throat.
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My chest burned as if a searing coal had been embedded beneath my skin. The pillow was wet with tears, and my t-shirt clung to my body, soaked in cold sweat and the fresh, dark blood from the reopened wound.
- Again… - I whispered raggedly, feeling a familiar, scalding warmth bloom beneath my collarbones.
The world around me was quiet. The sea in the Mist murmured rhythmically outside the window, Silly was asleep on the chandelier, and Chuchundra was making soft, squeaking noises in her sleep at the edge of the bed. Yet the sinister whisper of a hundred masks still echoed in my ears, and the fading light of Emet-Selch’s eyes lingered before my sight.
I tried to stand up to reach the bathroom and, naturally, got tangled in the blanket, crashing to the floor with a loud thud.
- You… - I groaned, pressing my palm to my chest. - How could you… I remember, and, Holy Shiva, it hurts so much.
Tears of resentment stung my eyes once more. I lifted my blurred gaze to the ceiling, feeling utterly abandoned, left entirely alone with this unbearable past that returned as a nightmare time and time after.
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Managing to get up somehow, I stumbled into the bathroom, but before I could even flip the light switch, the door flew open. There stood Rika, holding a basket of creams, her hair completely disheveled.
- Drop anchor! Who’s there?! - she froze upon seeing me - pale, pressing a blood-stained hand to my chest - Sapfira? WHAT?! IN THE WORLD?! IS THIS CRINGE?!
With a loud crash, she cast the basket aside and, in one swift bound, was right beside me, bluntly yanking up the hem of my t-shirt.
Seeing the jagged edges of the wound, glowing with a sinister, poisonous-purple light, Rika swore the way only hardened boatswains in Limsa know how.
I am on AO3 - Sapfira92 ✍🏻📙🤲🏻
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