(cw: intrusive thoughts, body implant, references to abuse and previous murder)
[Ianthe pursed her lips, pressing what little blood they contained out, as she watched Alina grace the flesh husk that once contained the soul of a man that harmed her in ways that Ianthe could only speculate with a tender kiss. She bit the inside of her cheek and articulated phalanges as the void-insidious feelings of jealousy and possessiveness slipped through the mental barrier that was becoming more and more porous as the days passed.
She could just take that skull later. Come back to the spider nest after Alina had moved on after the bone graft, pull it free, and hide it with the corpse she was already hauling. Bone took a long time to digest. Alina would never know. She could place the skull where it could see her f--
No. No. No, that was Corona's voice she was hearing in the back of her mind. That's what the Void's been sounding like lately as though it knew her vulnerability. No, that was too vindictive. Ianthe had better control than that. Alina would figure it out. The skull wasn't worth the cost. Besides, Ianthe would want Alina to give her such a kiss as well.
"But did she when she strangled you and thought you dead?" her sister's voice whispered.
Ianthe cracked her neck and exhaled, fingers reaching up to run over the sun scar and the raised bump under the skin at the center where she'd placed the pearl Gilia had given her.
She raised her bone hand and ensnared the corpse with her thanergy, infusing it with ease. The body picked itself up off the ground, turning away from Alina, walking steadily almost as though it wasn't a lifeless husk directly toward the closest spider nest. Ianthe watched it go without a word.]
(Supposed to be 'Then now, only you, me, and he' >:[
[Ianthe pursed her lips, pressing what little blood they contained out, as she watched Alina grace the flesh husk that once contained the soul of a man that harmed her in ways that Ianthe could only speculate with a tender kiss. She bit the inside of her cheek and articulated phalanges as the void-insidious feelings of jealousy and possessiveness slipped through the mental barrier that was becoming more and more porous as the days passed.
She could just take that skull later. Come back to the spider nest after Alina had moved on after the bone graft, pull it free, and hide it with the corpse she was already hauling. Bone took a long time to digest. Alina would never know. She could place the skull where it could see her f--
No. No. No, that was Corona's voice she was hearing in the back of her mind. That's what the Void's been sounding like lately as though it knew her vulnerability. No, that was too vindictive. Ianthe had better control than that. Alina would figure it out. The skull wasn't worth the cost. Besides, Ianthe would want Alina to give her such a kiss as well.
"But did she when she strangled you and thought you dead?" her sister's voice whispered.
Ianthe cracked her neck and exhaled, fingers reaching up to run over the sun scar and the raised bump under the skin at the center where she'd placed the pearl Gilia had given her.
She raised her bone hand and ensnared the corpse with her thanergy, infusing it with ease. The body picked itself up off the ground, turning away from Alina, walking steadily almost as though it wasn't a lifeless husk directly toward the closest spider nest. Ianthe watched it go without a word.]