Eroica
Defective
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Oh, shoot, I didn't see this till today! Sorry, Aid!What's the prompt for today?
That's alright!Oh, shoot, I didn't see this till today! Sorry, Aid!
Does anyone have anything for a prompt?
Sure. Anyone can.May I join? it seems like fun
Thank youSure. Anyone can.
Forgot to quote youI have a bit of a prompt if anyone is so inspired...
The sound was echoing. The slow consistent drip of water onto stone.
The sound was echoing—the slow consistent drip of water onto stone. I lay there, listening, wondering if there was any hope from these chains that bound me. Lisa sat not too far from my feet, holding her knees close. Was she to be next? Only she knew the thoughts that haunted her mind.I have a bit of a prompt if anyone is so inspired...
The sound was echoing. The slow consistent drip of water onto stone.
that was really good!!!The sound was echoing—the slow consistent drip of water onto stone. I lay there, listening, wondering if there was any hope from these chains that bound me. Lisa sat not too far from my feet, holding her knees close. Was she to be next? Only she knew the thoughts that haunted her mind.
The moments passed, and the waves continued crashing against the hull. I closed my eyes, my shoulder and leg still throbbing from the bullets that had cut through them only days before. If only there were hope in such a cruel, dark place, I could slip through the cracks like I had once done, and be free from this misery.
"Why'd you do it?" Lisa's words were sharp. She released her knees and turned to me. "Kuna," she spat, "or should I say, Sloane?"
I gripped the straw that made up my pathetic bed, sucking air through my gritted teeth. Yeah, maybe it was a bit more than the pain that nearly took my life that bothered me, or even the fact I was again being held hostage by the same ones who got me into this mess. I was living a lie despite the chains that kept me to it, and the truth was stinging almost as bad as my wounds.
Lisa stood up and hovered over me the best her chains would allow. Her stance was unsteady, swayed with each wave the ship rolled over. "She was trying to kill you," she said through gritted teeth, "and you stood up for her! What is this mess you're doing? Standing up for your enemies? Is that what I am to you? Just another enemy that you want to risk your life saving?"
She turned away and sank to the floor. She held herself up with one hand and put a cliched first to her mouth, quivers rocking her shoulders as the silent tears fell.
"Lisa," I pushed myself up, and my right shoulder started screaming with pain. I held my tongue between my teeth, pushing myself further upright.
"No," she turned back, her cheeks wet, "please. Just stay lying down. I don't need to tend to your wounds again."
"I'm fine," I whispered. I pulled a smile onto my face, but the look in her eyes told me she knew it was fake. "Well," I forced the smile further up like that would do anything, "I'm at least better than I was, aye?"
"You're not," Lisa looked down.
"Yeah," I looked down too. She was right, but she was also wrong. "I'm sorry. I wish I could say that I'm not a part of this, but my past makes it so I am. I'm sorry that you had to find that out."
I leaned against the arm holding me up. "Besides that, maybe..." Maybe I should end the conversation here? Ha, I wish I could, but my silence hasn't helped with anything since the Raiders captured me again. "Maybe I'm just trying to show her I'm truly sorry, even if I'm indirect to her pain. Or maybe I'm just giving her the same treatment I've been given and a chance to be someone better."
"The treatment you've been given?" Lisa raised an eyebrow and nodded over my helpless body. "Unless you're delirious, I think you're mistaken."
"No," I threw my head back. Wrong move. My shoulder cried out louder and my arm gave way to the pain. I fell to the straw and gripped my shoulder, accidently. Lisa was immediately at the source of my pain, and I pushed her away.
"Not like that," I said, hoping she didn't notice my pitch rising. She sat back down, but her eyes widened with worry. "Before this," I returned my hand to my throbbing shoulder. "When I received kindness and forgiveness when I didn't deserve it. That's the treatment I'm talking about. This, this here I deserve, but being forgiven and given a new life, that's a treatment I could never deserve but it was given to me freely, and that's the treatment I want to give to others, even if they do kill me."