6/11/2016 entry for the Sokkla Saturdays: Drabble Challenge
Word: Fascination
It was a thing of monstrous
beauty, glazing at a boy cleaning the blood off his sword.She watched from the shade
of the jungle leaves, the creek flowing past the sword’s edge, red veins
drifting downstream. He glided the cloth against the blade, singing with a
sharp hiss.There was something
intriguing about how his shoulders sank, the distant, hollow look in his eyes.
He was somewhere else, lost in his thoughts. He had been rubbing the same side
of his blade for some time.And then he blinked, as if a
painful spark had been lit within him, dropping the sword into the water,
sucking the fresh cut on his finger.She remembered him. She
remembered the furious look in those eyes years ago, when the sun turned black,
when phantom voices laced with lies plagued her dreams.Unbridled fury, walled
within a beguiling soul. And from such a cold, desolate place.Azula would know in time
what brought him to this remote corner of the Fire Nation. What fascinated her
more was that distant look in his eyes.“Is there a darkness within
you?” she rasped softly, muffled by her mask. “Have you accepted it too?”
A/N:
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