♣ - a fading memory ↕ - a memory that may or may not have happened
[ memories meme ] - ♣ - a fading memory ↕ - a memory that may or may not have happened
----- Training grounds left no room for anything else but swiftly moving feet and fists-turned-iron, scrambling rustle of limbs and hollers of both taunt and encouragement. Above the noise little else could be heard but more of the clamor, more of steel scraping steel and the voices egging on the young, the cubs still in need of a spark to their confidence.
And yet, keen hearing captures the heavy thud and scream, sound and force bouncing against the Academy’s heavy door. A distraction, the kind that has his gaze shift from opponent to carved wood, the kind that was so very unfortunate to occur amidst this particular sparring session.
Knuckles collide with sweaty temple, turns alert mind into a scrambled mess of thoughts and flares of pain, haze clouding vision and mind.
‘ Norns, son of a- ‘ Curse is swallowed, along with copper-like flood coating his tongue, and the screams behind the door jump out to pierce the veil in his brain.
A girl? A woman? There are demands - let me in! i deserve to be here! - and he attempts to shake the worst of the nausea overcoming him. Gravity tugs at him, face soon colliding with blood-soaked sand, and he wonders with every ounce of the child that he still is, why a girl would wish to be here.