"Garbage." Tone ever so spiteful not lacking any of the sharpness which their little 'conversation' undeniably harbored. Patience ran thin; the other spoke of matters far too personal to be simply brushed aside. - WARRIOR had not yet lost carefully kept supremacy but one could feel heavy heart banging in the chest & pulse accelerating whenever another word left collocutor’s lips. "Your assumptions are utterly inane."
❛ Maybe. ❜ Her hue remains cold despite the rising temperature; while she bore the Fruit of Knowledge, never did she claim to know what it was she spoke. For the reason that she held the spirit & wisdom of God gave her perspective had also given the girl a prison in the same sense that she was still but a child ( a shell of one, but still a child )—one whom had only an ill-defined idea of what it's hand grasped at... even if what it reached for was simply what her truest self knew so easily.
It made it all the more difficult to reach out, to hold out this body's hand and heal the damage done to the other's soul. The unmistakable injuries that time had done to the war-torn; the battle-weary; the battered who, like her, lost it's identity from the burden that the world had brought onto them. Isolation worn much like a veil to the dress which was worn to remind the body of it's purpose, and in so doing, divorced herself from the truth that she had only succeeded in bleeding herself dry and making the body hollow. The other's certainty & resolve had also become her own downfall as, much like any self-fulfilling prophecy, had made her future unclear, and once her purpose fulfilled... what then will await her?
Rei had seen the steady fall, the surefooted stumble, and the indomitable inevitably conquered. It never lasted, and what endured for now would eventually succumb when the time came and went. Nothing beside remains, and in the end, despair would be the fate of she who stands alone.
The girl knows this to be true because, once, the child was once like the other.
And now, here she stands: a manikin poised like a person. A husk worn by strings that it had come to despise, but knew not how to be rid of them. A carcass held by what was once mighty, now decrepit and barely clinging and forced to live because of purpose not yet fulfilled... and the body still had miles to go before ‘ The End ’ would come. For that, she would live, but she knew her fate was not uncommon, and as the oracle's eyes looked, the girl could see the same fate in hers.
But, she did not know if she spoke to her knowingly aware of the warrior outside and the conceit it held, or to the wounded lioness inside that once had the innocence of a cub. It was a uncertainty that felt like a blade drawn and quartered at her neck; perhaps an omen of what was to come had she continued to speak, possibly the prelude to the other’s wrath and the death that would befall this shell, this slave.
However, if that be the price to save a life, the price which Knowledge tells her she must take... then she shows no fear for whatever comes next as a result of the rare decision.
❛ But, even the most inane of assumptions can still be right, as it is one of life’s greatest lessons to know that a fool can be right sometimes. ❜