01-06-2025, 09:30 PM
Sasha wasn't much on current events. He wasn't much on anything outside his own little sphere. He didn't really care one way or the other, but he vaguely remembered a bunch of morons hunting people who could do what the Ascendancy did. What he was just now realizing that maybe the shard was only part of the thing. She'd called him a god before... They'd come after him then... he was dangerous now. They sent people to hunt him. His hands had stopped kneading her neck as he thought about things. Distractions and all...
Her story seemed similar, and he did get sick after the first time, and again after the second. Sasha collapsed to his ass into the cold wet snow behind him and his breathing quickened. He was going to get sick again. "I don't want to be sick again." It felt like dying -- literal dying. The fever, the shaking, the pain. And it was worse the second time. Sasha completely fell inward, even his usual calming methods failing to capture his mind, failing to remember how to cope, how to live. Lost in the memories...
Her story seemed similar, and he did get sick after the first time, and again after the second. Sasha collapsed to his ass into the cold wet snow behind him and his breathing quickened. He was going to get sick again. "I don't want to be sick again." It felt like dying -- literal dying. The fever, the shaking, the pain. And it was worse the second time. Sasha completely fell inward, even his usual calming methods failing to capture his mind, failing to remember how to cope, how to live. Lost in the memories...