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everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 7m

‘probably’, he said, but with a weight in his voice that spoke of the hundreds, the thousands of times he must have replayed those battles differently in his head. and in those different simulations, how many times had he seen himself die?

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 42m

live! you are qualified to do so.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 1h

three cheers for tyranny / unapologetic apathy!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 1h

then i, too, shall make a sacrifice! now that i am dead, i have no need for a heart to weigh my sins!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 2h

-kiana! what are you doing here? if the seal is broken...
-shut it! then i'll wreck her good again! want to run away from me? not a chance!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 3h

there is no need to fear. the pain will be brief. your era... is coming to an end.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 3h

-kiana! what are you doing here? if the seal is broken...
-shut it! then i'll wreck her good again! want to run away from me? not a chance!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 3h

unfold this pair of wings for me again / to soar above this world.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 4h

i am martin blackwood, and i am not lonely anymore; i am not lonely anymore.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 4h

life blooms like a flower / far away or by the road / waiting for the one / to find the way back home.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 5h

he didn't squeeze it. it was as if he was hesitating to do anything that might wrinkle it even slightly. though all i saw were the faint trembling in his brow and lips, it was like viewing a kaleidoscope of emotion.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 6h

-kiana! what are you doing here? if the seal is broken...
-shut it! then i'll wreck her good again! want to run away from me? not a chance!

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everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 6h

if rescuing you is a sin, then i'll gladly become a sinner.

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everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 7h

he didn't squeeze it. it was as if he was hesitating to do anything that might wrinkle it even slightly. though all i saw were the faint trembling in his brow and lips, it was like viewing a kaleidoscope of emotion.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 7h

failure is not the same as death, but know that only the living can prevail.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 8h

but… even if there is no repose beyond it… even if there is only despair… i want to walk my own path!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 9h

i took you for a god in the heavens, but you! what did you take me for? you never took me for anything!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 9h

and, they made a decision as a human. they would be someone who rid the king of his solitude, and would always stand by his side.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 10h

hail my proud queen on and on, on and on.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 11h

as snow falls on desert sky / until the end of everything!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 11h

now you rest in this coffin, encased in layer upon layer of ice. but rosalyne, i promise you... your final resting place will be the entirety of the old world.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 12h

witness the will of the weak!

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 12h

i am not scared of becoming an enemy of the whole world / as long as your gaze permits it.

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 12h

won't you please hear my voice that hungers / for a duo?

everlasting flames 🔥 @everlastingbot.bsky.social · 13h

-he has your eyes.
-they are full of fear.