The Reflection - Hero & Carrion
What does it mean to be Shattered?
Does my body break into a million little pieces, and the dust of my soul get scattered….in the wind?
I get to sit and watch as my Ward rips himself apart.
As he cries and screams and I can’t do anything but watch. He doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do. I’m supposed to guide him.
Waiting till the day he dies.
It pulses with the same pain he feels everyday.
The pain of the lashes on his back.
Of the strings of his heart being pulled by a vain little Pitch.
Nothing but poison on his lips as he said it.
Because I looked like the boy who would have everything he could never have.
The boy even his own sister would leave him for.
And I still couldn’t protect you.
“You know. Feeling sorry won’t help him.” The skychild’s Reflection visits me everyday. I believe his Ward calls him “Carrion.” “Neither will crying like a little bitch all the time.”
“What exactly will I….be able to do...Carrion?” It hurts to speak. My body doesn’t like it.
“You and I can go find him.” Carrion’s black eyes and mouth always made me feel weird. Looking into them felt like looking into a void. One that consumed you in every way. Wrapping around your neck and constricting, yet you could always still breathe.
But you felt like you were suffocating.
Is this what the Lights feel like when they look at their Reflections?
“How exactly….would we find him? I’m….Shattered. I can’t….get to him.”
“Wherever the skychild is, Maligna will soon follow. Find him. Find Mali. Come on, Hero.” His hands are warm. Lights are warm, aren’t they? I’m not warm. I can feel his hand under my head. His arms hook under my knees and shoulders as he lifts me up.
“You’re lighter than you should be.”
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The sound of shattering glass rang through the dining hall. Sky’s shout and a thud followed it, Tetra halfway holding him up, having barely caught him before he fell. Zoey quickly placed herself between them and the two new arrivals who had just landed in the middle of the floor, glass encompassing them. The windows in the ceiling above were all completely shattered, a shiny white glowing substance dripping off the shards still stuck to the metal that had held them up.
Carrion’s hair stuck out in every direction, clawed hands scratching at the stone floor as he pushed himself up. His void-like eyes seem to pulse as he looked around the room, the lack of discernible pupils or irises making the action seem even more unnatural.
“Hello, skychild. Long time no see.” Carrion smiled, no teeth to be found in a pitch black mouth. “Could use a little help here. Hero’s a bit….sick.”
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-Reflection of the Prince of the Dark World: Hero
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-Reflection of the Hero of the Sky: Carrion
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Welcome to the Reflection.
Which Mirror would you like to meet next?
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Pick a Reflection from the last lines and comment which one you'd like to see next!!! My server had picked the Hero of the Sky, so his and his Dark's Reflections are the ones introduced here!
Carrion is Sky's Reflection, Hero is Mali's Reflection.
Depending on who is chosen, you'll see their Reflection as well as their Dark/Light counterparts' Reflection!
Chapter 16 (if you're on tumblr)/Chapter 20 (if you're on AO3) will be out hopefully this weekend or next. I'm on spring break now, so we'll see if I can finally get that chapter done XD
Stay crazy, my Lovely Proxies~!!!