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I Watch You Taste It, I See Your Face, And I Know I'm Alive ...

You're Shooting Stars From The Barrel of Your Eyes - It Drives Me Crazy, Just Drives Me Wild.

Nothing in the world looked like this - like living in limbo, letting legacies lay, left behind without a care in the world.

There's nothing like saying you're sorry for a story you should've never told to start with.

Now he has no stories left, having littered them like leaves on the forest floor, a perfume he could barely pick up on.

Soon, the stars would start screaming, falling out of the sky when the chaos started to crawl.

All of the neat order, perfect plans put into forward motion? Soon, they wouldn't matter. The tale was coming to a close, considering all the things they'd gone through.

All the things he'd put them through.

Now, at a great distance away, there was a manse, a sprawling life in stone and glass, one he'd made for himself, for the things that mattered most.

Nothing here mattered. Not really. Not the bleat of small fawns, not the cries of does and stags who could think of little save fucking one another in the broad daylight, under a sun that would rather scorch them.

Bylah had no use for such things. Bylah had no use for the little lives being put on display, like ants wedged between two pieces of glass.

He was through here; let the trees rot, the termites terrorizing all the soft insides that bark protected.

Let the rain and the erosion wipe it all away. He would leave, but never be gone. He would walk away, yet lurk in every blade of grass, every hoof that crushed it.

He had done enough here - had humored these little lives until their merit wore thin.

Now, it was time to do what he'd come here to do all along.

It was time to destroy it all, bit by bit, inch by inch, atom by atom.

It was time for Entropy to do it's job.


-fin-


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Would You Look At Me Now? Can You Tell I'm A Man? With These Scars On My Wrists... [ChildlessFather]

...to prove I'll try again, try to die again, try to live through this night, try to die again...



Day in, day out - the sounds of lives living, lives lost. He knew them already, knew them well. He had seen the years go by, dissolve like sugar in water - sweet for only so long.

It was a terrible way to live, that - to watch everything he'd known, possibly cared about, get old and wither. Not even the flowers mattered much. Soon, they too would fade into insignificance.

It's not that he was without fight. There were days when it was all he did - fight with others, fight with himself. Those were the worst fights - you can't win against your own worst enemy, the one that mocks you in your mind.

He was terribly tired. Atlas had nothing on him - fuck the world, when you had problems like his.

And now? Now he couldn't even watch the world pass him by, sight stolen so suddenly. Now everything was dark, if not silent. He could still hear the sounds of life around him, the screams of children in delight and horror. Both things were so easily found here.

Not everything was peaceful in this world - he knew that well enough.

But he never quit - it wouldn't've been too hard to, to be fair. It would not have been impossible to end it with the suddenness of a mausoleum's door slamming shut, a candle snuffed out. Not his style, though - not that he really had any style.

No, dying wasn't the answer he'd spent all his life looking for.

The answer he was still looking for. So he closed his useless eyes and listened to the world.

The world that kept passing him by, living and loving, lost and alone.

Life as lost and alone as he was, never knowing where it was going, but so, so ready for the trip to be over.
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By Any Other Name [Wesker]

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Well played!

Dear You, Who Shall Remain Unnamed And Could Stay That Way By Never Replying Here, But I Think You Will Because You Will Feel the Indignant but Incorrect Urge To Defend Yourself for Acting Like an Unmitigated Weiner for No Real Reason,

You know, I said I wasn't going to comment much around here anymore, and that stands true. I've been quiet.

I've pulled Bylah out just a handful of times - mostly for special occasions, and for the most part, that's fine too.

Unless you're just not savvy on present events, MOST people here know that Bylah and Nine are close. If you pay even more attention, you know that Bylah is also close to Kaoori and Jettem, and Takeshi by default, being Kaoori's kid and all.

So chances are, to see them all sitting around, it's like a rare family reunion.

So when you decided to show up? I have a feeling that you knew this was probably a rare sort of deal. Bylah, Nine, Jettem, Kaoori, Tata, Takeshi, all in the same spot? Oh yea, THAT happens a lot. Even if you DIDN'T, you were politely - and privately - asked not to start something. Because let's face it: you're character is known for starting things.

Yet, you did so anyway. Your character hung over us like a vulture, waiting for the opportunity to arise in which he could do his thing.

If I wanted to, I could lambast you. I could really light into you for deliberately going out of your way to ruin what was a fun event between deer that really like each other - three of which are rarely seen anymore.

I'm not going to do that. Because you were playing your character how he's meant to be played, and I can't fault you for that.

I can, however, fault you for this: just because you, the player, CAN go out of your way to screw up someone elses fun? Doesn't mean you should.
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