I M S O R R Y FOR THE DELAY OH MY GOD
but this got split into another chapter
congrats this is a thing now,,, cause we got part 3 almost fucking done!
and by that i mean this got way too long and had to be cut to another part SO HI ITS A SERIES W H O O PS
Restraints: Chapter 2
Word count: 3,282
Rating: M for gore/implied gore and implied torture
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Have you ever taken a moment… just one, small second of your time to sit back and think of all of the little things in life that you take for granted?
The things that go by, day by day, falling into a routine that you’ve come to accept as normal parts of your everyday life.
It could be your hobbies, your jobs, your friends, your loved ones- all of these things are just an afterthought in your mind; you’re used to them.
You’re so used to them, you never honestly expect something to happen to them. Something that changes your so-called routine like it never existed in the first place.
You never notice the little things in life until they’re ripped away from you.
It’s then that you finally realize just how much you truly took for granted. Your first reaction is to blame yourself. You scramble to think of millions of things that you could have done differently; things that could have prevented any of this- all of this- even if every single one of them were impossible, it didn’t matter.
But no matter what happens, no matter what thoughts or ideas run through your head, there is always one, single question; one single word that is always running along side each and every one of those thoughts.
From beginning to end, it’s a question that lingers in your mind like a sickness. A plague on your thoughts that can never be cured no matter how hard you try.
This is the lesson Aridana learned, and one that has never left her thoughts since the very second she was brought into this contained hellscape.
One minute, it seemed everyone was peacefully going about their lives in the City. People and Guardians roaming through the tower, living and working as normally as they always did. Aridana going through the reports that Cayde had conveniently “forgotten” to do for the ump-teenth time.
Sunny doing her best to keep her upbeat and try to make her laugh, even with this gloomy storm outside. Convincing Sunny to help her get through the paperwork while Ari cracked jokes about kicking a certain Hunter Vanguard’s ass once he got out of that important meeting Zavala had called him into earlier.
And the next minute comes.