“what happened here?”
/ hey there! this is the meme: send “what happened here?” to find my muse after they’ve finished fighting a brutal fight. i found it while going through your meme tag and deemed it interesting for a first time encounter between them! :)
What happened here?
@hatakaka
The blood rolled off her fingertips; still fresh, still warm. Splattered across blades of grass, smeared upon the trunks of trees as it came to pool upon the main road between settlements. Bodies laid unmoving, ripped open by hands far stronger than they appeared upon the lithe frame that stood breathing as the sole survivor.
Red were her hands, soaked and flexing. Red was her mouth, blood having darkened her ashen lips and seeped to stain her teeth. Yes, she had sank them into their flesh like she had her fingers, to pull apart meat and muscle. Not a single limb, not her torso nor her face nor her hair was without the evidence of these people that once were alive and now lay, scattered vaguely in a line from the woods where they had ambushed her and out into the open here.
At the sound of another's arrival one of the witch's hands twitched, knowing by the sudden approach this was not some mere traveler. Not when he moved so swiftly and arrived so quickly. Long plum curls stained crimson shifted as she pivoted her body partially into the direction of the energy she felt - eyes blacker than the deepest and darkest part of the forest then found their mark. He did not dress like them but all the same she was silent at his inquiry at first, taking in the stranger as she assessed any potential intent to do harm.
Not because she was fearful of battling once more, no, but because she was quite irritated being run through again and again already. This wasn't on her agenda for today.
Despite not possessing any wounds upon her person, she still bore the appearance of someone who had been fatally wounded repeatedly. Dress torn, stabbed through, singed in places. Someone like this should not be standing, let alone alive.
"A failed witch hunt." Mortem announced with evident warning. Let this silver haired man decide for himself if he believed her to be an actual witch or not. For now she took him in; running over his mostly hidden face, down his body and the manner in which he presented himself. Her eyes lifted to the symbol engraved upon his headband, a member of the Leaf Village. A large village, an old village and one that birthed many competent fighters.
Yet this one was not coming across as being tied to those she just slayed. Ready he may be to also engage, Mortem did not perceive immediate hostility. She'd say, 'wrong place, wrong time' for him if she had any violent intentions herself. Alas, the witch had none unless he provoked such. If anything, her hands and shoulders relaxed some as if to silently communicate her willingness to engage for now. "I intend to clear the road, if you're concerned." Clean up the mess, if you will, since those that attacked her sure weren't going to be doing it now.