Sophie Foster during Lodestar Aesthetic because stars above i have feelings now
“Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason! ”
Put me to the test
I'll prove that I'm strong
Won't let myself believe
That what we feel is wrong
I finally see what
You knew was inside me
All along
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side
But there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
Angry people are not always wise.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I'll be the fire
So I can light up
An empty room
Just for you
I'll be a fighter
Give me the thunder
And I'll get through
Just for you
'Cause you'd do the same too
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Don't call it a warning, this is a war
A Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill // Warrior, by Beth Crowley // The Art Of War, by Sun Tzu // Dark Paradise, by Lana Del Rey // Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen // Macbeth, by William Shakespeare // Light Up, by Isak Danielson // Parasite Eve, by Bring Me The Horizon //
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When's the next chapter of No rest for the wicked coming up I neeeed it T-T
It's very much in the works, but life has been kicking my ass lately - promise I am making progress even if it's slow. I rly want the next chapter to be Good, but that's also slowing me down rip
Here's a sneak peak of chapter 12 to make up for the wait:
The pair had been waiting for well over an hour now, huddled close to keep warm. Soap’s head dropped with sleep more than once, but he quickly startled awake each time, despite Simon’s reassurance that it was okay if he napped.
Oh well, if he wouldn’t sleep, then he could answer something that had weighed on the lieutenant’s mind since their bomb had been placed.
“When you told Gaz that you needed to be here to set off the explosive,” Ghost said, earning Soap’s attention. “That wasn’t actually true, was it?”
Johnny blinked in surprise. “Why? What do ye mean?”
“The tripwire, Johnny.”
“Ah.” The smaller man squirmed slightly under Ghost’s reprimanding stare. “Well, maybe we don’t need to be here to set it off, exactly, but it’s good tae have eyes on the situation, aye?”
The winning smile following the words had Simon’s stern facade melt away easily.
“Stubborn fool.”
“Ye know I hate bein’ benched, Si,” Soap defended with a dramatic arm gesture, immediately wincing when he pulled on one of his recent wounds. Ghost rolled his eyes. “Besides, we’re small in numbers. Each one of us counts.”
“True. Even two injured and retired, not to mention mentally unstable and emotionally compromised ex-soldiers.”
“Now you’re getting it,” Soap grinned enthusiastically, clearly choosing to ignore the dry sarcasm lathering Simon’s statement. The grin only grew when Simon cracked a small smile of his own.
“Well, until backup arrives, you’re right. Each one of us-”
“Sorry, what was tha’?”
“What?”
“Ye just said somethin’ incredible, Si, I’ll need tae hear it again.”
Ghost sighed. “I said ‘you’re right’, Johnny.”
“Ha, there it is,” Soap cheered quietly. “Could get used tae tha’.”
“Would say it more if it wasn’t so rarely true.”
“Och, shut yer puss,” Johnny chuckled, burrowing back into his spot against the warm body beside him. His nose and cheeks were pink with cold, despite working with a smaller supply of blood than usual. The battered form was more susceptible to cold after the ordeal it had been through, and Simon had accepted his role as personal heater. Usually it was the other way around.
“As I was sayin’,” Ghost continued. “I agree that we’re useful here while our numbers are so small. But if backup gets here in time, you an’ me are getting the hell out. Understood?”
“Sir, yes sir,” came the muffled reply from the face pressed against his winter jacket.
With a small hum, Simon lifted his hand to rest on the back of the other’s head. Layers of clothing separated them, preventing him from carding his fingers through the dumb mohawk like he wanted to, but he still felt the body against him relax at the contact. Maybe the stubborn Scot would finally succumb to sleep.
The winds were biting at his own bare face. It shouldn’t feel strange, not after years of civilian life without the fabric hugging his features, but it was different when he was wearing his gear. The get-up seemed incomplete without the mask.
He hadn’t been lying when he told Soap that it was due to airflow; even now, his lungs were still greedily lapping up the oxygen he had so sorely missed. But it wasn’t the whole truth.
Ghost had risen from the grave way back then. He needed Simon to be the one to do so this time.
“Hey, Si?” Soap sounded much too awake. His mind was probably as restless as Ghost’s own.
“Hm?”
“Thank ye fer findin’ me. Thought for a second-”Johnny swallowed when his voice thickened. “Really thought my last words to ye would be- would- That would’ve… I couldnae stand that.”
He didn’t need to say the words. Ghost knew all too well what he meant.
“A file. There was a sentence written in cyrillic, but- I think I know what it said.”
“What, Johnny?”
“Hell awaits you.”
The EMP had cut off their communication then, had stolen Johnny away, leaving his final words to ring in Ghost’s head like foreboding. During his long trek through snowy forest, the sentence had played like a broken record. He had strangled that nagging fear at the back of his mind that he would never hear Johnny’s voice again; that one day, all he would remember of that Scottish lilt would be how wrong it sounded curled around those words.
In the end, Ghost would have torn apart the world in his search, if it meant that Soap could drown out his senses with that voice again.
“I’ll always find you.”
He met Johnny’s eyes with steadfast conviction, when the man leaned back to look at him. Whatever Soap found in the dark eyes staring back had him smiling softly.
“Aye. You will,” he said. With a teasing glint in his eye, he added: “Sap.”
“Mm, that’s your fault. I was very cool before we met.”
“Right. Nothin’ cooler than having fifty dad jokes ready to go.”
“Worked on you, though,” Ghost winked, relishing in Soap’s fond eye roll.
“Lucky fer ye tha' I have terrible taste.”
“Likewise. I fell for a grown man with a mohawk”
“Aye, embarrassing,” Johnny chuckled. “M’happy it didnae scare ye off.”
“Me too.” He pressed a kiss to Johnny’s forehead.
“Sap.”
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