time after time

Hanako · 10-10-2024, 03:52 PM

The dark sand coated her paws, the horizon a violent red as she watched the waves roll up the beach. Even in the summer the air here held an edge to it, an unspoken threat of the cold that was yet to come. It reminded her of what used to be, Sea's Plain and the life she'd had there, how it felt like she'd had it all when in reality it had all been a farce. A pretense, an act she'd been playing for so long it had sunk into her skin, felt real in its own right. But she knew herself better now; the world ought to know her too.

The red sky ought to have been unnerving; the foam of the tide looked like blood, like someone had culled all of the sea life and their innards were starting to wash ashore. A waste of good fish, she thought, that was one of her few quarrels with living underground as she had. The few fish that lived in the subterranean ponds and lakes didn't taste quite the same.

Still, she tipped her head back and called out to her son. Didn't know how things had changed here, but knew well enough to make an educated guess. For who was meant to be King aside those of her blood?

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time after time

Hanako