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Lumena Castle Town. 4:34 PM.
The sun shone brightly, but in her eyes, the world was dim, full of shadows and suffocating murk. Birds were singing, their songs gentle and lulling, but all Ruria could hear was the steady drone of her heartbeat, somewhere deep inside her chest, contemplating if it should continue its eternal rhythmic, or pull itself apart, simply stop its ludicrous waltz of life.
Her feet were moving, slowly, each step taken begrudgingly, until she reached her destination: A large outlook point void of passerby, that looked upon the sea breaching onto the far corner of the royal city. Everything in the world at that moment seemed drowned out or smothered in somberness, except the sound of the sea, though far away, it reached her ears with its gentle melody, the sea that always looked like his eyes...
Ruria grimaced, reaching a hand to clutch her chest. It was a rare day that she truly was not herself. Emotions had become wrought with pain at her isolation, and the brooding element within her easily took her, making each breath she took a cursed one. There was no streak of violence that accompanied it this time, only a dark urge to shut her eyes to all that was light and happiness, except the sound of the ocean.
She had found herself standing atop the iron rail that protected outlook vieweres from a steep drop to the ground below, one arm curved around a street lamp positioned there. Why keep up this charade? She wondered. Why live with such pain, all the time, such pain, such dark secrets that caused such deep pain... Her thoughts were muddled, manipulated by the pulsing element of darkness that throbbed inside, only pausing in her grim, manipulated thoughts when the presence of another distracted her.
To come across such a creature as her at this very moment, at this very time, when the sun began to dip behind the mountains to slip into slumber, and the birds neglected to sing anymore, it was like one coming across a phantom, something cursed that did not belong here anymore.
"You startled my thoughts," she muttered softly, without turning to face Kailash. Her arm that had rested upon the lamp post had mostly released it, losing most form of security from plummeting she had. "But I can still hear the sea. Is that why you came...?"
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Lumena Castle Town. 4:34 PM.
The sun shone brightly, but in her eyes, the world was dim, full of shadows and suffocating murk. Birds were singing, their songs gentle and lulling, but all Ruria could hear was the steady drone of her heartbeat, somewhere deep inside her chest, contemplating if it should continue its eternal rhythmic, or pull itself apart, simply stop its ludicrous waltz of life.
Her feet were moving, slowly, each step taken begrudgingly, until she reached her destination: A large outlook point void of passerby, that looked upon the sea breaching onto the far corner of the royal city. Everything in the world at that moment seemed drowned out or smothered in somberness, except the sound of the sea, though far away, it reached her ears with its gentle melody, the sea that always looked like his eyes...
Ruria grimaced, reaching a hand to clutch her chest. It was a rare day that she truly was not herself. Emotions had become wrought with pain at her isolation, and the brooding element within her easily took her, making each breath she took a cursed one. There was no streak of violence that accompanied it this time, only a dark urge to shut her eyes to all that was light and happiness, except the sound of the ocean.
She had found herself standing atop the iron rail that protected outlook vieweres from a steep drop to the ground below, one arm curved around a street lamp positioned there. Why keep up this charade? She wondered. Why live with such pain, all the time, such pain, such dark secrets that caused such deep pain... Her thoughts were muddled, manipulated by the pulsing element of darkness that throbbed inside, only pausing in her grim, manipulated thoughts when the presence of another distracted her.
To come across such a creature as her at this very moment, at this very time, when the sun began to dip behind the mountains to slip into slumber, and the birds neglected to sing anymore, it was like one coming across a phantom, something cursed that did not belong here anymore.
"You startled my thoughts," she muttered softly, without turning to face Kailash. Her arm that had rested upon the lamp post had mostly released it, losing most form of security from plummeting she had. "But I can still hear the sea. Is that why you came...?"
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