[[CREDIT TO MUDETH]]
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Your P.O.V
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Deep breath in.
Deep breath out.
They'll find you if you make too much noise.
They'll stake you to the ground if they find you, perhaps they'll adorn the walls and the floor with your innards. Like with how they with to the others.
You've heard that they could be saved, but with how mutilated they were. They weren't coming back.
The smell of fire and burning flesh almost made you retch, smoke stung your eyes and made them water. However, your tears were being held back by the sheer force of fear of being found.
Your heart was beating rapidly, as if it was trying to be free of its fleshy prison. Your skin crawled with the sickening feeling of fear.
Your mind knew it was the end.
Deep breath in.
Deep breath out.
They said that they would live eternally. They said that they could not die under its protection.
The Cycle's protection.
"O'blessed Cycle, our saviour in dark times" You took a deep breath and coughed a little. You knew you were destined to die. All your hiding did was postpone the inevitable. "Under its gaze. We will be safe. We will live in paradise and remain in eternal bliss..."
You repeated that mantra under your shaking breath. Again and again, hoping, begging that your saviour would do something, anything, to free you of your eventual demise.
But nobody came. You were alone. You were going to die, cooped up in this crude hiding place.
Screams of...
Actually, you didn't want to know what was going on outside. Not anymore.
Enlightenment of what was happening outside of your little pile of crates would only serve to escalate your fear.
You thought that all of this was just a nightmare.
After all this, you'd wake up to the sunny skies, the delicious food and the smiling faces that greeted you as you walked around.
You'd return to normalcy while you and your fellows would simply laugh this off as a joke. You would continue your studies and prepare for your grand destiny.
But you never did wake up.
Perhaps, if you fought back when they found you, you would've escaped your burning hometown.
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Morality & Mortality (Artificer x Reader)
FanfictionRain World and all characters in it are made by Video Cult, I do not own these characters or the game. If you do not know what Rain World is, I heavily advise you do some non-spoilery research on it. Heavy spoilers for the base game and Artific...
