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𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒
sentence prompts of frank castle quotes from his appearances in the nmcu
you don’t get to pick the things that fix us ’
i think that might be the hardest part , the silence when the gunfire ends
you hit them and they come back up , i hit them and they stay down !
i know who i am !
i’m not the one that dies , i’m the one that does the killing
i’m gonna watch you die
i may be what i’m meant to be
this is always who i was
for the first time , for as long as i can remember i don’t have a war to fight
what i do , i just do . it’s out of necessity
you’re one bad day from being me
i lost my family !
there are times when it feels like yesterday
i’m not like you people
there’s no peace up here , no happy medium that i’m looking for
my past is my past
everything’s changed
i lost them and everything changed.
i became something different
why were they coming after you ?
if you touch her i’ll kill you
i’m unarmed
we make mistakes and people die
there is no end of the line
my job was to keep them safe , and i didn’t
these people , they took ( insert ) from me
people that can hurt you, the ones that can really hurt you, are the ones that are close enough to do it.
sorry , is that supposed to mean something ?
this might be the craziest , most batshit thing i’ve ever heard in my life
i can’t have you on my conscious
now i’m the monster
i went fishing once with dynamite , that was fun
i’m not gonna let you die today
you became everything you hate
now all you got is a nightmare
that shit follows you home no matter how hard you try
you cross over to my side of the line , you don’t get to come back from that
people think torture is pain . it’s not pain , it’s time
if you run , you can’t see what’s coming up behind you
i’m already dead
i am home
as long as i was at war , i never thought about what i was gonna do next
if you’re gonna look in the mirror you’ve gotta admit who you are
they say you don’t hear the bullet that gets you
always thought that sounded like a bunch of bullshit
i think you’re a half measure
walk away ? could you do that ?
that’s being pretty generous
sometimes i think you just really might be the devil
you know , if you would’ve asked me once i would have told i was like anyone else.
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hi hello i’ve been getting an influx of new followers and I know i still haven’t made inej very active, but I’m here to say that i hope to change that very soon! life is busy, but welcome and if anyone is interested in plotting -- my IMs are always open for such a thing. ♥
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KAZ BREKKER, INEJ GHAFA and JESPER FAHEY in SHADOW AND BONE (2021)
#i just woke up to this and when i said there were tears#THERE WERE TEARS#look at themmmm#bABIESSSS#tbt.#jf.#kb.#ig.
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( * & . — THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY SENTENCE STARTERS .
‘ you’re are depraving some village of their idiot . ’
‘ i miss you . i miss you every day that i’m not with you . ’
‘ i didn’t think it was possible to miss a person this much . ’
‘ if you love music then you’re in the right place . ’
‘ the ties that bind you together make you stronger than you are alone . ’
‘ i can’t just call him in the afterlife and be like , ‘ can you please stop playing tennis with hitler for a moment and take a quick call ? ’ ’
‘ get up . we’re going to save the world . ’
‘ it’s not spandex , it’s leather . and you used to like it . a lot , if i recall . ’
‘ we can accomplish anything when we accept responsibility together . this is what creates trust . ’
‘ you never know when to stop , do you ? ’
‘ you got enough material for your sequel yet ? ’
‘ i bet you’re loving this , hm ? the team at it’s best . it’s just like old times . ’
‘ he hated children too and he had plenty of us . ’
‘ if you believe in yourself , just once , great things are gonna happen for you . ’
‘ i know that i let you down , but i could do anything for you . ’
‘ you know , i liked you a lot better before you got laid . ’
‘ oh yeah , it is your skirt . i found it in your room . it’s a little dated , but it’s very breathy on the … bits . ’
‘ you’re the most important person in the world to me . ’
‘ best . funeral . ever ! ’
‘ sometimes men are unredeemable shits . ’
‘ we were … we were just kids . little kids . ’
‘ we all came home . since we’re here , we might as well save the world . ’
‘ i’ve decided you’re the only one i can trust . ’
‘ if you’re raised to believe that nothing about you is special , if the benchmark is extraordinary , what do you do if you’re not ? ’
‘ eternal peace is probably overrated . ’
‘ we all wanted to be loved by a man incapable of giving love . ’
‘ one grows used to things , even if , sometimes one shouldn’t . ’
‘ look , you wanna pay your respects ? go ahead . but at least be honest about the kind of man he was . ’
‘ you of all people should be on my side . he had to send you a million miles away . that’s how much he couldn’t stand the sight of you . ’
‘ i feel like we should stop him , but then again i also just kinda wanna see what happens . ’
‘ you make me want to wake up each day and you’re in my dreams every night . ’
‘ you also told me that licking a nine volt battery would give me pubes . ’
‘ i’m just gonna go murder mom , i’ll be right back . ’
‘ last time we tried to stop it , we all died . what makes this time any different ? ’
‘ we actually have the chance of saving the lives of billions of people . ’
‘ it wasn’t his fault ‘cause he was ridiculously high , right ? and the girl , she thought he was a furry … ’
‘ i think maybe you’re the only person who really knows who i am and still likes me anyway . ’
‘ you don’t get to blame your problems on anyone but yourself . ’
‘ we didn’t choose this life . we’re just living it . ’
‘ than christ he’s not our real father , so we couldn’t inherit those cold , dead eyes . ’
‘ you don’t have to apologize just for existing . ’
‘ when something seems to perfect , it’s usually anything but . ’
‘ all the what - if’s start to haunt you . ’
‘ i’m done playing their games . i’m ready for a change . ’
‘ i would love to play cops and robbers , wear a mask , and feel important , but guess what ? recess is over . it’s grown - up time . ’
‘ we have a great job . the best job . we got it made , asshole . ’
‘ people still don’t take me seriously . i wanna be numb again . ’
‘ i stayed because the world needed me . ’
‘ at least i make my own decisions . ’
‘ i have been left out of everything for as long as i can remember . ’
‘ nowhere to go . no way to change . ’
‘ but now , i know nothing in my life was real . so i’m starting over . ’
‘ you do whatever it takes to survive . or you die . ’
‘ i don’t belong anywhere , thanks to you ! you made me a killer ! ’
‘ i’ve done unimaginable things , things you couldn’t even comprehend , just to get back here and save you . ’
‘ she needs our help and we can’t do that if she’s locked in a cage . ’
‘ i mean , it must be scary . terrifying , really . to discover that you can do something that you never thought you could do . ’
‘ it’s not difficult to accept , it’s impossible to accept ! ’
‘ what are you still doing here ? we’re trying to have a serious conversation . ’
‘ what’s going on with you ? and don’t tell me everything is alright because i saw you in there . you were crying like a baby . ’
‘ you saved my life ! ’
‘ i don’t want them to see me like this . besides , you know , i’d just hold them back . ’
‘ how about we ask him after we kill him ? ’
‘ maybe they’ll brood each other to death . ’
‘ you’re a real sick bastard . ’
‘ would you stop it ? why are you putting this shit in your body ? ’
‘ he must have been a very special person to put up with your weird - ass shit . ’
‘ you were my greatest disappointment . you only scratched the surface of what you were capable of . ’
‘ i lost someone . the only … the only person i’ve ever truly loved more than myself . ’
‘ you know , before you kill him , you might want to hear what he has to say . ’
‘ we all came home . since we’re here , we might as well save the world . ’
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𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐞 : 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔
‘ i’ll find you again , wherever we end up next . ’
‘ the enormity of my desire disgusts me . ’
‘ please , one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off . ’
‘ i’ve been lost but i’m here now . you’re the only person who has ever been able to find me . ’
‘ almost dead yesterday , maybe dead tomorrow , but alive , gloriously alive , today . ’
‘ you are not broken . ’
‘ you can love and be loved , despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world . ’
‘ i did violence to my own heart . ’
‘ will i be forgiven for the sins i did not commit , but created ? ’
‘ i would never kiss anyone who doesn’t burn me like the sun . ’
‘ i would rather break the world than lose you . ’
‘ i think you and i have known each other in a few lifetimes . ’
‘ i didn’t know . i had no idea how greedy my heart really was . ’
‘ is that why the idea of losing you torments me so much ? ’
‘ how long have i been without you ? ’
‘ am i foolish for wanting this ? it will end in flames . it always does . ’
‘ sorry about the blood in your mouth . i wish it was mine . ’
‘ if i love you , is that a fact or a weapon ? ’
‘ tell me how all this , and love too , will ruin us . ’
‘ and you realize the one person in the world who loves you isn’t the one you thought it would be . ’
‘ it cannot be a mistake to have cared . it cannot be an error to have tried . it cannot be incorrect to have loved . ’
‘ finally , i plead guilty of adoring you . ’
‘ a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort . ’
‘ without realizing , i find it in myself that i cannot stop thinking about you . ’
‘ tomorrow , when i wake up , i promise , i will be better . ’
‘ someone has to leave first . this is a very old story . there is no other version of this story . ’
‘ when i imagine myself , i am always leaving . i couldn’t draw my own face if god asked . ’
‘ do we simply stare at what’s horrible and forgive it ? ’
‘ i wanted to let go of the pain even though it was the last thing that felt alive from you . ’
‘ have i endured loneliness with grace ? ’
‘ i’ll be your slaughterhouse , your killing floor , your morgue and final resting , walking around with this bullet inside me ‘cause i couldn’t make you love me and i am tired of pulling your teeth . ’
‘ and then my soul saw you and kind of went , ‘ oh , there you are . i’ve been looking for you . ’ ’
‘ sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body . ’
‘ i spent my life arguing how i mattered until it didn’t matter . ’
‘ who knew my haven would be my coffin ? ’
‘ dead is the safest i’ve ever been . ’
‘ i’ve never been so alive . ’
‘ you know what i was gonna tell you before , but didn’t have the nerve ? you got your name written all over me . i got my name written on you , too . ’
‘ you already are something . you always were . and you still have time to be . ’
‘ you know me by heart . it infuriates me that you know me by heart . ’
‘ why am i waiting for you ? hungering and thirsting for you in every cranny of my soul and even in my ribs ? ’
‘ you came with a handful of pain and a smile which broke the ground under my feet as the earthquake does when two people meet . ’
‘ the only good thing is that i’m getting used to suffering . ’
‘ the return to time was not my choice . ’
‘ we are built to live inside each other . this means we are built to ruin . ’
‘ time does not bring relief ; you all have lied . ’
‘ time does not know how to keep our hopes safe . ’
‘ you needed me so much that you had to end me . ’
‘ there are days where i am morbidly in love with you , and this is one of those days . ’
‘ i know no end to desiring you . ’
‘ i fear that i am both too much yet not enough . ’
‘ yes , yes , yes , i do like you . i am afraid to say the stronger word . ’
‘ a heart’s a heavy burden . ’
‘ life , as i see it , is all about farewells rather than reunions . ’
‘ heaven is real and you only had two minutes to prove it to me . ’
‘ it was already love . ’
‘ everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that they deserve it . ’
‘ i’ll love you until i forget how to . ’
‘ i’ll love you until i forget how to and then i’ll fall like my knees aren’t already bruised from doing it and i’ll remember why you’re worth the ache . ’
‘ of course i’ll hurt you . of course you’ll hurt me . of course we’ll hurt each other . but this is the very condition of existence . ’
‘ nothing makes me sadder and nothing makes me happier than you . ’
‘ i love you and i do not want to love you , it is too much and too difficult . ’
‘ grief is just love with no place to go . ’
‘ i felt my life with both my hands to see if it was there . ’
‘ you do this , you do . you take the things you love and you tear them apart . ’
‘ i hope it’s love . i’m trying really hard to make it love . ’
‘ if you touch me again i might burn up in the cold air . ’
‘ i asked you not to leave several times . ’
‘ i’ve only adored you lifetimes ago and here we are . it’s nice to see you again . ’
‘ all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember . ’
‘ i feel as though we were never strangers , you and i , not even for a moment . ’
‘ i’d choose you ; in a hundred different lifetimes , in a hundred worlds , in any version of reality , i’d find you and i’d choose you . ’
‘ nothing about this is soft but we pretend . ’
‘ maybe you and i are just a dream . ’
‘ i know you loved me too , you knew me , and it gladdens my heart . ’
‘ i promise i shall never give up and that i’ll die yelling and laughing . ’
‘ i don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision . ’
‘ the world was made so that we could find each other in it . ’
‘ you don’t meet the people you love , you recognize them . ’
‘ i think you and i have known each other a few lifetimes . ’
‘ this body knows fear like a front porch knows welcome – it is always coming home . ’
‘ i miss you more than i remember you . ’
‘ if i could have done it all again , i would have loved you better . but i could not have loved you more . ’
‘ we could have been happy . i know that , and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know . ’
‘ you want a better story . who wouldn’t ? ’
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I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.
indie inej ghafa from the grishaverse . duology & headcanon based . written by stitch . ©
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ANGER SIMMERED , A FOREST FIRE of rage that festered in the marrow of her bones. fingers danced a blade expertly within her grasp, desperate to greet flesh, but she stayed its approach as the man who grabbed her dropped. ❛ rough days come more often than not here. ❜ she spoke surely -- eyes never once leaving the other’s. she knew better than to merely trust one so skilled with a blade, even if that blade had come to her aid.
❛ ------------- who are you? ❜
@ghafha
the man drops with an unceremonious thud, celeana sardothien’s gaze rises from the body to face inej ghafa- there’s no friendliness in that gaze. just caution and the slightest bit of irritation. she jerks the blade out, cleaning it on the grass with practiced ease. the assasin hums to herself, “ having a rough day?”
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ancshe:
↳ @ghafha asked: “I’m sorry.”
𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐈𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐀 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐍 , 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐒 𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃𝐍’𝐓 𝐁𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇 . she was difficult to fool , especially when he couldn’t be bothered putting very much effort into the deception . “ me too , ” he said , his eyes shining in that starry way that usually meant he’d recently stumbled out of a gambling den - or someone’s bed . “ but shouldn’t you be saying ‘ this action will have no echo ? ” even now the weight of those words felt cumbrous , more than any apology , any promise . he was 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 her now , but beneath that he hoped she knew that if the sentiment hadn’t resonated , he wouldn’t have remembered it long enough to throw it back at her . “ don’t worry , you can make it up to me , ” he added , allowing a smile to break through as he swung an arm around her shoulders . “ it’s been a long night for all of us . buy me waffles and we’ll call it even . ”
THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO HEAR — ACCEPTING .
WHEN THEY WEREN’T GETTING SHOT AT , or kaz wasn’t sending them on one of his schemes, or their pasts didn’t etch its hurts into the hallows of their lungs, inej could pretend they were just normal children and this was just a normal city and that their head was thick with ignorance. would they have been friends then? if the lot of them were merely studying at the university, chased away when the urge to stuff themselves silly with sweets could not be ignored? she liked to think they would be. she kept even with his pace, despite the lankiness of his stride and the short stature of her height --- her step silent ghost / wraith / girl. the city bustled around them, members of dime lions and razorgulls and even some of pekka’s bouncers attempting to rope in eager tourists. poor bastards didn’t stand a chance.
she allowed his touch ( if he lays his hands on you, cut them off ) -- friend, she oft reminded herself. he’s a friend --- even snaked her hand around his waist and pinched his side for his teasing antics. ❛ there’s a time and a place for voice of reason. right now is not one of them. ❜ she allowed herself a smile and a spared glance in jesper’s direction. she knew she could always get jesper and nina with waffles. her stomach even began to protest in response.
❛ waffles - huh ? ❜ she nodded in affirmation. ❛ I think I can do waffles. ❜ an easy enough apology.
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“Here, without any strings to hold me in place, I am learning what it means to have control again. To carry myself, I must stand. And to stand, I must know how to do it alone. Yet, standing alone, is not something I must— but I have always felt lonely. I have always felt this limbo, this drag of my feet in each step I take—forwards, tumbling, grasping; backwards, stumbling, reaching— behind, palms open to catch a fall of which only I know the motions to. How do I get up again when there seems to be nothing to cling onto?”
— “No Strings Attached” remnant-thoughts
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if tumblr could stop posting my half written replies before i am ready instead of saving it to my drafts, I Will Scream.
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*rollerblades in with starbucks , pops a peace sign* we've been sick, but we here now. xx
#OUT .#i gotta have dinner w my parents tonight too#but im gonna try to be around tonight and on peter#i hope everyone is having a good day <333
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some random headcanons floating around my head:
sometimes inej will steal / buy small things to sneak into her friends pockets / leave them on their pillows / etc. intel kaz never asked for but could utilize, or chocolates for nina, some gun oil for jesper, a small wooden wolf for matthias, music sheets for wylan. she doesn’t have to, and it’s certainly not done often, but little trinkets to keep their morale up. she likes to make them smile in quiet ways. :^)
inej is a good cook ! her mother taught her all the suli recipes when she was a child, and somehow managed to keep inej’s attention long enough to learn one or two recipes (inej’s mind was always to the sky -- when she could walk the ropes next). given she has the resources / ingredients, she can make a mean skillet bread.
inej was always closer with her father, but loved her family fiercely. she didn’t only lose her parents the day she was taken, but her cousins, her uncle, her entire people. family is exceptionally important in suli culture, and why inej clings so fiercely to her fellow crows. a suli is not supposed to be alone in the world.
inej tries to keep her hair clean, but oof ! ketterdam makes it frizz like it’s no one’s business. partially the reasoning behind her hair always being braided is to keep it out of the way when she’s climbing, but also because it would be a frizzy mess if he kept it down. suli hair oils usually do the trick to taming it, but she can’t often find any in ketterdam. when she does though, her hair smells really good.
knife trope? knife trope. there 10000% has been a situation where inej has to hand over all of her knives, and they keep holding their hand out and she keeps pulling them from questionable places on her person. she a knife QueenTM.
inej doesn’t have any animal companions (though ig you could count the crows she feeds as companions), but if she did, it would be a little black cat called noć.
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she was the QUEEN OF MOURNING , and in it’s depths she would never drown .
indie nina zenik featured on stardustvein. as loved by : anna
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more misc memes
“ change isn’t easy. ” “ i just wanted to say i’m sorry. ” “ i guess being angry was/is just easier than being sad. ” “ what did you want to tell me? ” “ it was supposed to be simple. ” “ you’ve got blood on your shirt. ” “ you can stay with me. ” “ what did you want to show me? ” “ i miss ____ more than i thought i would. ” “ i don’t like to talk about it, but i wanted you to know. ” “ shut up. please. ” “ fuck off. ” “ hush, i’m trying to kiss you. ” “ you’re lucky you’re cute. ” “ i fucked up. ” “ i just want to take it all back. ” “ i can’t sleep. ” / “ can’t sleep? ” “ we should get a pet. ” “ if you have something to say, spit it out. ” “ i’m allowed to be angry. ” “ she/he aint even that cute. ” “ just hold me. ” “ do you want me to go? ” “ i just need time. ” “ i already made my decision, you’re not going to change that. ” “ nothing you can say will surprise me. ” “ everyone leaves, eventually. either they move on or they die. they leave and i’m left behind. ” “ death is a part of life. i accepted that a long time ago. ” “ i don’t fear death. i fear anonymity. ” “ listen to me, please. ” “ i’m not even sure what to say to that. ” “ that should probably shock me, but honestly it doesn’t. ” “ am i supposed to care? ” “ i do care. ” “ you make me happy. ” “ you look beautiful like this. ” “ if this is your idea of fun, i don’t know what to say to you. ” “ it terrifies me. ” “ just let me show you how i feel. ”
#*:・゚✧*:・🗡 - ℑ'𝔪 𝔴𝔞𝔩ƙ𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 ץ𝔬�� / MEMES .#mm.#also this.#im abt to go play some games w friends so leave me thingssss
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I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.
indie inej ghafa from the grishaverse . duology & headcanon based . written by stitch . ©
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WILL I EVER BE WELL ENOUGH TO ENJOY THEM ?? it’s the first thought , the one that hits like a punch to the gut. nina has always enjoyed food , even back at the orphanage where it was sometimes scarce or underwhelming. even when the boys pulled on her braids and mocked her for having a second portion , for sneaking a third. she has never had an interest in making herself small. nina was nina. unabashedly so. and anyone that didn’t approve of that either needed to get out of her way or risked feeling the full force of her power. even before she knew she was grisha , there were rough tumbles with those that sought to tease. scuffles against the hard wood of the floor that lead to bruises , teeth marks … sore bottoms and hungry stomachs , if they were caught. and that was perhaps what she hated most , missing a meal on account of a small - minded boy who could not have hoped to handle her then and had no chance of stomaching the woman she became.
she thinks , perhaps , that is the worst thing parem could have done to her. nina had been ready to die to save her friends , to flame out after a glorious , terrifying display of power. there was no preparation for this. for living this half - life. weak. cut off from the power that had defined who she was for so long — what she wore , where she sat , what training she received — and now ?? none of it mattered. she can’t eat , can barely sleep. and she continues to be a liability to their operations , unable to summon even the barest of heart - render talents to aid in their mission without nearly succumbing to need. the inescapable pull of the drug. it’s a wonder that kaz hasn’t simply thrown her in the gutter. the bastard of the barrel doesn’t deal in useless things …
parem had killed her , in a way. just not the way she’d expected.
still , nina tries to keep the smile on her face. inej does not need to bear her burdens when she has so many of her own already thrown across her back. ‘ it’ll have the biggest , fluffiest waffles money can buy. and strawberries. fresh strawberries and the syrup ?? to die for. ’ she can dream. she can try. for inej. for matthias , who’d already dragged her from death kicking and screaming more times than she can count.
‘ once or twice. ’ the pregnant pause is long enough that it would be easy to assume that was the end of the conversation. that nina did not care to elaborate further. and then ; ‘ I wished so long and so often to be useful. to show everyone what I was capable of. and then the war broke out , and we were low on soldiers. and I fought tooth and nail to be given a chance , they didn’t really want to use students. our numbers can be unreliable so using students that aren’t fully trained is a risky move … one that could end up costing more lives than it saved. but I fought , until my throat ached and I got my chance. to wander into a camp of drüskelle and captured. ’ she gives a rueful shake of her head.
‘ I suppose that’s why they say be careful what you wish for. I shudder to think what would have become of me if the ship hadn’t sunk. ’ perhaps a fate not so different than where she’d landed. the key difference was at least now she was with friends. not in some cage below the ice court. not a slave to the enemy , leashed to them by the drug she both hates and longs for in equal measure. ‘ but I’m here now. and while I can’t say there are no regrets , meeting you is not one of them. ’
INEJ TRIED TO IMAGINE IT, THEN . dreams were dangerous. dreams were oftentimes a illusion on the streets of ketterdam. dreams could poison even the purest of man --- could ROT his insides, make him do terrible things in the name of dreams. inej had done unspeakable things herself, in her desperation to seek freedom from the clutches of the city, but she had to believe that her saints would welcome her, for she’d right her wrongs on the seas. she thought of nina, sitting in a little waffle shop she called her own, forcing matthias to sample each and every flavour, and that dream? it brought a genuine smile to inej’s lips. she mulled over nina’s words with quiet deliberation. it was a dream inej could not see coming to light --- for nina had different dreams, but it was a nice dream nonetheless. a different lifetime, perhaps. one where hardship did not hound them so fervently. inej dreamed it for nina anyway, if only for the moment.
❛ it is a lovely thought. too lovely, I think, to have in this wretched city. ❜ she’d seen ketterdam rob her friends of all that they were owed -- greed was a filth / a stain / a plague that festered ‘neath its infrastructure. when she thought of nina, her hopes for her friend were that she did not dwell in this saints awful place. nina deserved to fly away, settle in a place where she could be wholeheartedly nina -- a grisha who should not have to fear being hunted, who did not have to fight other people’s WARS any longer. inej had noted that the parem robbed nina of her strength, and a part of inej feared they had DEMANDED too much of their friend --- that she was to suffer for that power like anyone who dipped their toes in something with no thought of its consequence. had inej could, she would have taken nina’s place in a heartbeat. all she could do now, though, was be there for her friend. be there and pray to her saints for their aid.
nina’s words shook selfish dust from the shelves in her head, long ignored. a dusty past that inej was desperate to run from. a past that often still whispered terrible things to her every time she climbed too close to the menagerie’s roof. she wondered what would have happened if her courage had failed her that night, if she had never approached bastard of the barrel at all, if she’d still been enslaved to tante heleen’s horrors. she shuddered at the darkness that rose up whenever those ‘what if’s’ swam in the seas of her head -- threatening to drown her. you are inej ghafa. no net ensnares you. regret was never a thought that crossed her mind, even when thoughts of her time as a menagerie girl festered within her. she knew not what she would have done, had she never met kaz, or jesper, or nina, or the other crows. inej reached over and slipped her hand into nina’s, squeezing reassuringly. ❛ I don’t often question why the saints have us walk down the paths we do --- only that we’re meant to for a reason. we’re strong enough to weather the storm. ❜ a rueful smile was given. ❛ regret has no home here. it’s only a distraction, an offered blindness from moving forward. ❜ their little temporary home among the dead did not bother inej like it might bother others, and the weight of their coming obligations rested heavily upon her shoulders. no, they did not have time for regrets. only the job / the promise of riches / the taste of freedom on the air. despite it all, inej hoped selfishly that she’d never lose the friends she’d made in ketterdam, even as the sails carried her away from its shores.
❛ if your wishes carried your path to me --- then I suppose I can only be grateful. I do not know if I could have survived this city without your friendship. ❜ temple went to rest on nina’s shoulder, her hand still holding onto nina’s tightly, gaze once more tossed towards the heavens. they had so much to do still, inej felt so exhausted from her time in captivity that she might sleep for years, but they had time yet to wish upon the stars.
so she wished, once more, for the safety of her friends. for the saints to watch over her when she walked the high rope. for the riches they were all promised, so they may all live the lives they deserved more than anyone in this ROTTEN city. a self-serving part of her even wished for kaz to open up to her, to confess the words written so often in his expression. even though she hardly believed in wishes, she wished as hard as she possibly could -- perhaps the saints would hear and grant her kindness.
❛ are you doing okay? ❜ inej asked suddenly, not moving from her perch. it was in inej’s nature to notice everything, including the chill that seemed to claim her friend’s fingers that inej gripped onto. ❛ I know you’ve got matthias, but you can talk to me, if you need to. ❜
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>> ⚔️ << ❝ I’M MORE THAN happy to share what i have on me, ❞ he’s not. ❝ but i’d appreciate you telling me what you are running from. perhaps i can help. ❞
@ghafha·liked for a starter !!
SHE MATERIALIZED FROM THE SHADOWS , no longer a ghost. the nights dark and dangerous --- she became what she knew best -- a wraith. she had not expected him to sense her ( no one ever did ), but she masked her surprise regardless.
❛ can you? ❜ what was she running from? shackles? her past? beasts that lay waiting in the dark, or monsters that wore human faces? ❛ not too many would offer such kindness to a stranger. ❜
#zagubionywilk#* INT / ZAGUBIONYWILK .#one day i'll have my wi.tcher verse up#but it is Not This Day#* VER : WITCHER .#q.#ty for the starter !
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