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5yn · 7 months

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aion/mary, 1200 words

Mary Magdalene doesn’t fear cliffs or spires. She doesn’t steer clear of bodies of water, unfathomably deep, and shakes off her wince with a brittle laugh when she stumbles, one night, in the pitch-black darkness.

The cut on her leg, upon inspection, is a straight and less-than-shallow red. “Steady now,” Aion says, watching disinterestedly – the vaunted Holy Woman she may be, and he’ll be the last to deny the value of her assistance, but she still bleeds and bruises like any other human out there. He has better eyesight than her, and it takes a moment for her to take his arm. It probably had looked like some lumpy, shadowy thing before her vision had adjusted. “Can you stand? …Should’ve never made Chrono walk ahead of you, huh. Rotten luck.”

She might have seen the fall coming. She’s never been the easiest to read, as far as humans go, but mild perturbation on his part isn’t going to lead him to begrudge her secrets. Chrono seems taken enough by her, which is an observation that is utterly meaningless as much as it is, at times, a source of dry fascination – it is his brother, after all – and so most days, that’s enough.

Chrono frets, of course, when he hears of the injury, which is a far more amusing spectacle, and, after a second of confused flailing, tears away a scrap of his jacket to stem the bleeding. They’ve set up a temporary camp; the fire clings to the shadows on her face, the crinkle of sadness in her smiling eyes, the fragile shiver of her shoulders even as she coos and teases Chrono over the attention he’s giving her all over a minor wound.

“Are you blushing on me? How charming.” Her hand twitches, as if about to cling to Chrono, but withdraws at the last moment to tuck stray strands of pale hair behind her ear. Her hesitation, painfully and boringly human, is another secret, but it’s not one Aion particularly cares to unearth the roots of. “Don’t worry too much, though,” she murmurs. “I’m not afraid of a little pain.”

“What are you afraid of, Holy Woman?”

The question comes out casual, slightly superior, a little challenging. He’s not really sure what he’s expecting.

“I fear wide-open spaces,” replies Mary, looking up at Aion, her sweet smile turned sharp with blitheful rue. “They just seem to go on forever, with no end. Don’t you think so too?”

She retained her fondness for reading even after it stopped being a habit she took on to fill in the empty days and compulsory loneliness of her long imprisonment. Mostly it’s Shader who joins her, the two of them giggling in tandem as they discuss physics and mathematics and Pandaemonium’s memories etched like genetic ink, but one day Aion makes his presence known on the other side of the table, stacks of books and tomes and misplaced notes smelling of coffee and catnip forming a makeshift fortress between them.

Mary just nods and smiles politely in greeting. There’s nothing to fear here. Aion mostly minds himself, and he minds himself well; she knows he spends time in Eden’s library too, having procured a good chunk of the books himself, but they keep missing each other just barely. There’s nothing to be worried about there, either.

“Does this place not remind you even a little of the Abbey? It’s hard for me to imagine why you’d spend so much time in this part of Eden, replicating the conditions of your birdhouse.”

“Birdcage,” she corrects gently, glancing up from the pages of the book in her lap. Aion pouts rather than blushes, and embarrassment is less satisfying to witness on him than it is on Chrono, in her private opinion, but she can’t help a faint smile regardless. “And it’s different. I had no choice then. But now I’ve finally found them … the wings that will set me free.”

“And what do you mean by that?”

“Chrono,” Mary says simply.

“Interesting. You’re giving him that much credit?”

“Never mind if the cage isn’t locked, Aion,” she explains, her voice soft. “Don’t you know already? Without wings, a bird will never be able to fly.”

“Does human culture really interest you that much, Aion?” she asks, looking over his shoulder at the novel he’s reading.

“In a sense,” he replies. “It’s relevant information to know when us Sinners need to blend in, anyhow, so it’s not mere entertainment. Though I’ve found human stories exaggerate. They dramatize. Is it because your kind is so short-lived that they seem to love drawing out the pathos and tragedy and bliss of their brief existences?”

Mary ponders the question. “I think people write stories to live with themselves,” she says. Her expression tightens with something hot and fleeting, quickly smothered like the last dying embers of a violent blaze. She draws her hands to her chest, and her heart deeper into herself. “Yes. Things make more sense to them that way.”

“They wrote legends and fairytales after you, didn’t they? And look at what you have to show for it.”

“Thank you for your concern,” Mary says, almost amused. There’s something about the glint in her eyes that disconcerts him. “But I’m free now.”

“You recommended this book to me,” he says, changing the subject. “Our tastes don’t perfectly align, but it’s enjoyable enough so far.”

“Oh? I’m pleased to hear that.” She tilts her head, her laugh a gentle trill that spreads to the ruddy flush on her cheeks and slight shake of her shoulders. “Just don’t tell me how it ends.”

Aion looks at her skeptically. “You haven’t finished it?”

“I always stop halfway,” Mary confesses. Her hands clasp together, not in prayer, and she isn’t asking for forgiveness. “I prefer to think of my own endings.”

Mary Magdalene is only human in the end. Just a person like any other, trapped circling their lives in a never-ending staircase built on other people’s bones, on pointless hesitation, shackled and subservient. Even her unfathomable powers hadn’t changed that. How boring. How disappointing.

His talons seize around her neck, pressing on her pulse running hot with the rush of blood. He wonders if Pandaemonium can feel it.

Mary Magdalene doesn’t fear suffocation or high places. She doesn’t fear drowning or disease or being bled to death. When she’d stepped to the edge of the outer ring of Eden’s protective barrier, surrounded by thin air and a cruel drop, she hadn’t been looking straight ahead. She’d let her attention stray to Chrono’s oblivious form the entire time without a care in the world.

He knows what she really fears.

“Are you afraid? Of this future you didn’t foresee?”

Her prophecies had brought her despair. But despair, bottomless and cold, had protected her, shielded her, caged her heart and soul better than any wall or bars her fellow humans in the church could have constructed out of wood or stone. She had been its most loyal mistress, labouring under the weight of her unchangeable, immutable fate, a shackle around both ankles like any other delusion or myth or system.

She doesn’t answer. She’s losing breath. She’s crying, but the tears are messy, choked, nothing beatifically tragic like she had probably dreamed of.

“Well, rest easy. Whether it’s me or him… The end result will be the same.”

He’ll liberate her from this, too. And Chrono, and the rest of the world, will soon follow.

#Chrono Crusade

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cssmonster · 6 months

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wictorianart · 5 years

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Commission work for Hayley Gabrielle. Characters name is Zac

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ezracrafts · 4 years

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currently working on a spooky abbey

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bonesandsalt · 7 years

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Log: Day 83 (Wednesday, September 16, 1925)

Joshua is awake. He is also convalescent due to having broken his ankle during the initial chaos of Pandaemonium’s destruction. I let Shader handle the debriefing once he had awakened. Given our last interaction, I felt strangely reluctant to speak with him. Once Joshua had eaten and gotten dressed, he was set up in his old room, and then taken to see Rosette.

I allowed them some time alone together. They spent the time talking. Rosette talked about her and Chrono’s life with the Magdalen Order, Joshua about what he remembered of his time on Eden and in California. Joshua showed Rosette how to use the computer in her room and got into the security feeds to give Rosette a “tour” of Eden. Rosette seemed disturbed by the security system, seeing the cameras as an invasion of privacy.

“Look, there were exorcists patrolling the grounds at the abbey, right? It’s just like that, except you don’t have to do as much walking,” Joshua said.

“Well, no one was going into people’s rooms, or the dorms or something,” Rosette grumbled. “He could be watching us right now!”

“I wouldn’t be too surprised if he was,” Joshua said.

“Are you okay with that?” Rosette asked.

“I’m not…not okay with it,” Joshua said. “The security systems on the ship and at the house kept us safe from Pursuers for the most part. And sometimes…I needed to be kept an eye on.”

(I did cut the feed after that. I had been drawn to watch by the camera and sound pickups activating due to keywords and elevated vocal tones.)

Once they had some time together, I elected to join them for dinner. Dinner was a bit awkward, Joshua was tense at first, and Rosette was hostile. Rosette was horrified to learn that she’d been eating meals I had prepared. Joshua, with a great deal of amusement asked her who she thought had been cooking. Rosette indicated that she thought Shader had been cooking.

“Shader couldn’t boil water, Rosette,” Joshua said, laughing.

“Hey, I can do at least that much!” Shader said indignantly.

“I’ve seen you eat chicken soup out of the can, without even heating it up,” Joshua said.

“So? I can cook some things!”

Today was Rosette’s first training session. She was initially hostile, but went eventually followed my directions. Stretching exercises were involved, followed by standing, and then some attempts at walking. There was some discussion during this time, mostly questions about when I was going to wake her friend and the other children up. I explained that Eden couldn’t support them yet. This led to her wanting to know about leaving Eden. I explained that other places were worse off.

Interestingly, she did not ask about, or mention the Order. I questioned her about this, and she was very reluctant to respond at first, but then she said, her shoulders hunching, “they were going to execute him. They ordered Father Remington to do it. Because of what happened in San Francisco.”

“I see. I could see why you’d be hesitant to contact them,” I said. “I wouldn’t stop you from leaving, but consider the fact that Eden is a mobile base of operations that you would be able to work from. We’ve been working on making it more self-sufficient, due to the lack of infrastructure.”

Rosette looked very much like she wanted to comment at length on that, but didn’t say anything.

“But if you are very determined to leave, the only other place that might be a comparable base of operations would be a town and farming community under the control of a Pursuer. You might be able to make an alliance with him.”

“A Pursuer?” Rosette asks. “A Pursuer took over a town?”

“From what I understand, he took over protection of the community.”

“Protection racket,” Rosette muttered. “How are you on friendly terms with a Pursuer?”

“I never said I was on friendly terms with him,” I said. “We just have a mutual agreement to not kill each other. And hardly a ‘protection racket.’ But he seems to have a number of allies who are actively assisting the community, so they’re doing better than other communities I’ve seen, and might be willing to help you.”

“You’ll let me take Joshua and the others?” Rosette asks, suspiciously.

“Joshua can go where he wants,” I said. “Several of the children are too injured to move, and might be a burden on the community. You and Joshua, and perhaps your friend Azmaria would be best able to enter the community, if you were to make contact.”

“I don’t know.”

“Just another possibility to consider,” I said.

“Yeah, but you want me to help you find Chrono,” Rosette said.

“And you would be,” I said. “We just wouldn’t be directly allied.”

“‘Allies,’” Rosette said. “You don’t have allies, just marks and goons.”

“Shader is not a mark or goon. Neither is Joshua,” I said. “None of the others were ‘goons,’ for that matter.”

Rosette scoffed, and was generally suspicious, but she asked more questions about options, and then talked to Joshua about it.

I dreamed of Chrono again. I dreamed that I was Chrono, and I was wandering through an abandoned farmhouse. It hurt to breath, and my vision was blurry in one eye and nonexistent in the other. The dream somehow got tangled up with the plot of The House on the Borderland and I fought Swine Things while trying to get to Mary, (“my” Mary, not the Recluse’s sister) who was trying to tell me how to defeat the monsters. It seemed to involve driving them into the lake, which was full of a heavier-than-air fog. In the fog were strange winged shapes, something like fish, and something like birds. (So the dream was also combined with The King in Yellow. )

#chrono crusade #apocafic #fan fic

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