HS Curtain Call Event: Fall of an Empire by full-of-teeth, literature
Literature
HS Curtain Call Event: Fall of an Empire
CW for discussion of war, injury, extreme exhaustion Evacuation Team Submission: Fall of an Empire [470 words, 26 EXP] Somehow, the Red-Air trudged on. Xir strength was failing xem, the strike of blades and heat of molten gold pulling xem apart like xe was but a moss ball under a kitten’s needle-sharp claws, and yet xe stood. Xe stood, face caked in dirt, robes in tatters. Xe stood, bones aching as if ready to collapse. Xe stood, despite it all, but xe knew that to stand after 6 days of battle that xe was nothing short of lucky. Fabián was, whether xe liked it or not, very lucky. It was not typical to survive a fox while alone and powerless, let alone escape the fire that had started when the fox (and the tree the two were in) was struck by lightning. It was not typical to travel all over without an inkling of where home was and still somehow return in one piece. It was not typical to be fortunate enough to stay with family in the tribes, specifically one where natural disaster
HS Curtain Call Event: Light in the Dark by full-of-teeth, literature
Literature
HS Curtain Call Event: Light in the Dark
CW for discussion of war Apprentice Team Submission [541 words, 31 EXP] When the sky ripped open for the final time and Worldeater finally made its entrance, Bounmy found the dread boiling within her hardening like burnt sugar. Just as she sharpened her blade, the adrenaline sharpened her focus. The Demogorgon was nothing in comparison to this, and yet the adolescent felt a fury like no other. They had done so much already to save their world from the Nulls, to crush the effigy of a spirit that had been Absinthe and his minions—all for naught, it seemed, as a new, more terrifying creature made itself known. Staring up at Worldeater, Bounmy clenched their jaw. The mighty monster that had been the Demogorgon was but a fraction of its size, Worldeater’s obsidian talons large enough to have snatched the dragon from the air if it so desired. Bounmy lashed their tail, far more frustrated than frightened. Her tired eyes flashed as a fire rose within her. Don’t ever say I didn’t try.