#◈ // ❛ future's destruction -- ( with a broken heartˏ he holds his tongue. )

[fellegend]

@lumency

SILENCE is the world around them, consuming, wholesome. There is a weight that hangs in the air like a pendulum from the clock of timelessness. There is darkness about this weight, swallowing it, as well as them, & hiding them from the light in which they’ve always searched for. It’s pointless now. The atmosphere is thick with exhaustion, sweat, a yearning for tears to flow from azure, from emerald, & yet they cannot. This is what they tell themselves. They cannot cry, for then who would they be, those who identify themselves solely as the very strength of others? Nothingness, like the feeling in their hearts, exposed, empty, forlorn. 

Toes curl in his boots, and grass tickles him through the fabric of his garments. He is seated against the softened strands of life & they are crushed beneath him, beneath them. He wishes to speak, but no words come out. What more loss can they bear ? He knows the feelings that bind themselves around her heart, a chain that squeezes & squeezes, ceaselessly pulling. Downward, downward. His heart sinks in the memories of his own, the knowledge of what eats at his mind & the guilt she bears for it. He knows, he understands, & while he has lost, he would overcome his fear to bring aid to another who will not let him.

The prince is gone, he has been slain. 

         “ Lucina... I’m... here if you need anything. ” & he fights the fear that brings more tears.