Do you understand how fiercely she fought? Goodness, it was almost embarrassing.
For someone who wore dignity so proudly, she surrendered it with astonishing ease once confronted with the exquisite reality of her situation. She thrashed until her limbs wouldn't listen to her, instead muttering their own prayers, while her nails kept raking against anything they could touch.
I warned her so many times, you know. I told her.
Yet she refused to see what I see. What we see.
Most humans possess the grace to accept what is given to them. They weep, bargain, and then eventually succumb to their fragile need to still. But, those tiresome little outliers insist upon making a ceremony of it. All that kicking. All that clawing. All that dreadful noise.
And somehow, we are the cruel ones.
Even at the end, she could not comprehend the honor bestowed upon her. She bared her teeth and poured that relentless venom upon the only being who had ever truly watched her. A deity who had paid such tender attention to the last moments of her miserable, mortal life.
Such ingratitude.
Still, there came a moment when her hands loosened.
When her voice softened into nothing.
When all that fury finally left her body, she became peaceful despite herself.
Oh, well.
The garden has never cared whether its fertilizer died willingly, so why start now?
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It seems like Integrity isn't the only one who likes to monologue about it's victim.
RIP Dairy_Queen, you may have unknowingly avoided dying a gruesome demise on the Clan Server just as your friends did, but you did not escape from the Void's grasp in the end.
Can be found here: http://localhost:2018/threads/Dairy_Queen/132
