#this is a far-flung scene from book2 but i've been working on character arcs and liked how this turned out :v thank ye for reading!!!

[muddshadow]

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a moment from the godspawn trilogy, where Deya has trapped a powerful creature with the intent to siphon it, and Kon attempts to stop him —

“Deya.” Kon spoke the name with the weight of a mountain. With molten rage and wintered hate, a scorched and desolate wasteland of a voice that forgave nothing and now asked for it all. Kon eased a step closer, hands still raised. “Don’t do this.”

Hungry thoughts screamed to claw out Deya’s eyes, shatter his nose and crunch in his skull, squeeze his throat until the trachea caved and blood swelled purple through his cheeks – but Kon had a patient gaze. Patient enough to peer through all that starving vengeance and see Deya’s expression clearly. It was scrunched, doubt-sheened, with a stiff jaw and darting eyes; relentlessly maintaining the spell, hesitating on the edge of its completion. Deya didn’t quite know what he wanted, but he wanted to do something.

Kon continued, “We’ll help you, alright? We’ll figure something out. But you damn everyone if you steal from the Incarnate…”

“You won’t ever understand,” Deya spat.

“Probably not.” Kon didn’t even know what he referred to.

“The Further is everything. It’s breath. And it’s your fault I lost it.”

It was, technically, but Kon refused to apologize for preventing the vengeful genocide of a long-imprisoned ancient – twice, he might add, and here’s hoping to a third – and explaining the bigger picture to a mourning, angry, once-sorcerer who held a burning matchstick was an insurmountable task. Especially for Kon, who recognized the grief, the anger, and the matchstick.

#mud writes #last line tag #writeblr tag games #as always 'line' means 'hefty sizeable paragraph' to me #kon is a 'you need to finish your vegetables' type and deya is a 'why won't you let me kill people' type. so they get along splendidly #this is a far-flung scene from book2 but i've been working on character arcs and liked how this turned out :v thank ye for reading!!! #wip. godspawn #oc. kon #oc. deya #muddshadow