-- - @gasconsoldier
Wounds need time to heal. Lucy knows this. She’s lost things, lost people - those are the emotional wounds. And then the more traditional ones - like falling out of trees, or being dragged by a horse ( and Alexandre had lectured her something awful for that one ) where they were obvious and physical. This wound, though, was certainly pressed beneath the skin.
Of course she hadn’t been there for the death. In fact, she imagines if she had been this entire experience would only be worsened, and Lucy doubts she could handle that. D’Artagnan had been there though, and all the rest of them. But the whole garrison felt this. It had shaken the Musketeers to their core. So everyone was drinking. Toasts were being made, and somehow, as glasses were raised and a chorus sounded, proclaiming the name of their fallen comrade, Lucy imagined that perhaps they could heal. That this was something that would only make them stronger.
Over the rowdy cry, the shattering of glass almost goes unnoticed. Lucy’s gaze only caught the sparks as they reached their destination, and without thinking her eyes went to her brother, caught his gaze only for a moment, and she was rising from her seat as though she would be able to get to him in time. She thinks, perhaps, that she opened her mouth to call his name, but everything was lost in the explosion. What she remembers is being launched, like someone had thrown her, like she was a child being tossed in the air and caught again - only this time, no one was there to catch her. Impact, darkness. Ash, smoke. Silence.









