Chapter of Crow: Episode 1-2

With all your might, in the name of the Queen, you swing your rapier up to meet the Girl in Black's fierce javelin. Steel and steel collide, sending sparks and flame from your rapier's blade and her javelin's fangs. The fury reflects in your wide eyes, brighter than the sun.

" ……! “

A piercing pain attacks your throat before a rush of blood floods before your eyes. As the sparks die out, you desperately cling to your neck and feel the blood drip onto your battle-worn fingers. You lose grip of your rapier and stumble forward, catching a glimpse of your white dress skirt stained in blood bright as a rose. 

The splash becomes a sea, flooding your vision in a red downpour as it flows from the wound in your neck.

You want to scream.

Your mouth opens, but you can't scream. You can't speak. Can't call out. Can't even make a sound. Only blood and the ashes of war fill your voice.

You attempt to stand back up, but a powerful kick to your stomach sends you flying backward. For moments, you watch the Girl in Black whirl her javelin and wipe the blood from its pointed tips.

My blood.

Your vision becomes dizzying. The battlefield, the smoke, the flame, the sky melt together and create a kaleidoscope of chaos and color. No, not just one kaleidoscope; hundreds of thousands of kaleidoscopes wildly distort your vision. Silver rings, red eyes, gold crowns, green fields, black crows.

As your vision twists and turns, the ringing in your ear makes you think about DEATH. You want to cover your ears. No, maybe your eyes first. No, you need to cover your bloody throat and stop the bleeding. But you can't do anything except fall backward toward the decaying dirt torn asunder by senseless war. You faintly hear the Girl in Black speak, but the ringing drowns her disdainful voice to a mere droning "caw."

The kaleidoscopes and their cacophony of colors disappear; only darkness remains. The ringing silences, leaving a soundless void in your ears and head.

...

So quiet

...

You feel better now. You feel...

Safe…

You remember Leonard told you that if a sound is loud enough, it could crush your ears and brain to mush.

That’s scary.

This, this is much better.

The calming embrace of darkness. No terrible ringing; only silence. You don't feel the extreme pain on your neck, the blood taste in your mouth, the headache splitting your head splitting into two, anymore.

So be it.

This feels much better.

Than anything.

Peaceful.

Joyful.

Wish I could stay this way

forever…

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…

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[Queen……]

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Chapter of Crow: Episode 1-3