(Play the music if you want to I don't care but I do suggest that you read each sentence carefully)
Carolyn placed the last rock on the crudely made mound, his sword was lost alongside his body so this had to make due for his grave marker, of course from what she remembered she was the last one who remembered him, he lost his family in a horrible battle between grimm and huntsmen that saw their estate burn to the ground, or so he said, it might have been a lie, people always lie, experience taught her.
She stood upright after placing the last rock and the cold winds picked up, her free hair danced in the wind, she never got used to this freedom, back then she could only dream of letting her hair loose in public, the cold winds carrying thoughts across the continent,
Back in Siren's Bay, her people thought that the winds carried thoughts from the dead, so many find solace in the sea breeze, as if the dead was communing with them, she used to think that they were weird for doing so, but now whenever she found herself near Vale's harbor she always took the time to just sit and stare into the horizon, imagining that he's there waiting or together with his family, sometimes talking to herself, sometimes smiling happily, other times just blankly staring at the horizon, whenever she couldn't visit his grave, she'd be there staring into the sea,
"When would we meet again I wonder?" She thought,
These were her thoughts as she stared into the deep blue of the sea
"Would you believe me if I changed?"
"I wonder how you would react, if I told you I love you."
"It's just too bad I never got to tell you I was just too... cruel to you, of course I can always blame my childhood, that never excused anything, I never felt love, so for the first time in my life when I finally felt it, I didn't know what to do, I never felt anything"
The view of the horizon and the sea faded away taking her back to where she currently was, this... this man, here on the edge of death, staring down the barrel of a man who sees himself as the one who dispenses death, her body wanting to run, her mind wants to go down honorably, but she's already decided on how she wants to die, here where he died, she owed him that much
It felt like he was still here, his ghost perhaps?
What the hell, she's dead anyway
"Y/N, I love you." She confessed
The trigger was squeezed and the hammer hit the bullet, the chemicals reacted accordingly and the bullet left it's cartridge, and made it's way into the barrel,
Time slowed to a halt as she felt the sea breeze in the air, the humming of the winds, the gentle waves of the ocean, the eternal peace at the bottom of the sea, she felt... at ease... the Ocean calls to her, her ancestors welcoming her, her heart beat at a much slower pace, she had accepted what was going to happen, death had come for her and so she did what anyone would do, she welcomed it with open arms.
Her mouth twisted upward into a smile and her eyes closed for the last time as she saw her life flashing before her eyes.
All of this in less than a second.
Carolyn dropped dead, a circular hole on her forehead, passed right through, a smile on her face and her eyes closed, she looked like she was sleeping, her hair covered the newly bored hole on her forehead.
She's already condemned herself to her tradition's hell, as someone hailing from Siren's Bay, they revered the sea, it was their path into the afterlife per se as the town was founded by nomadic sailors, they buried their dead in the ocean being buried on land was likely an affront to their traditions, he slowly undid the grave that she had made for him when he disappeared months ago, there were ... flowers on it, a bouquet, it looks like was visiting this grave every chance she got and leaving behind flowers, he snickered, and then lightly giggled before bursting out madly laughing at the concept.
"THIS WAS ALL A JOKE" he screamed internally "SHE PUT THIS HERE TO TRICK ME!"
he found it hilarious, "THAT BULLSHIT ABOUT LOVING ME!"
She went the extra mile. she KNEW he was still alive, that's right SHE DID THIS TO TORTURE HIM!
He laughed and laughed, a part of him not finding this to be at all something to laugh at, this felt wrong for some parts of him
THIS IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATION AGAINST ME! ME! ME!
"I should've looked her dead in the eye before shooting her, She smiled?!"
WHAT. A. LOAD. OF. BULLSHIT.
She didn't change, that's right people never change, they always stay the same as they are throughout time, a thirty year old man will act the same as an eight year old toddler!
Fell in love with him!
The stupid concept made him shudder, it's not like she was raised in a family that was devoid of love and so in turn she doesn't know how to express it! THAT STORY WAS DEFINITELY BULLSHIT!
He slowly pulled her into the grave that she had made for him, why'd she even make a grave anyway? So there's something she can spit on? BAH!
He spit on her face one last time before kicking the corpse, he kicked and kicked, his fury poured into every unrelenting attack, his revenge! this was his revenge! he got on his knees and punched the corpse, every emotion, every single hateful thought, EVERYTHING!
Soon his fists slowed down and he removed his helmet to look at it more clearly, her body was no longer recognizable and a tear ran down his face,
"Why- Why did I do that."
"I-I was supposed to protect her."
"What the hell is happening to me?"
"What's going on?"
A static-y voice came from the helmet's radio, it was Steele's
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" she screamed "It doesn't matter, get your ass back to Vale!"
"Vale?" he questioned, why-
"VALE IS BURNING!"
Without question he dragged her mangled corpse into the mound that she had built for him and buried her, it was the least he could do.
Before walking off into the horizon he looked back one last time
"Serves you right."
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Next chapter: Vale burns
Quest failed: Voices of the chord, There you are
I'll be reviewing this chap in the morning, so expect changes probably or I'll go immediately write the next chapter, also anyone wanna collab?
