Commissioned by
@the-jonesy, here’s a piece about their character’s backstory, Zekee! Thanks again for your support ♥
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Warning: contains explicit gore
The dust of the Arena mixes with blood, turning into a mass of gorey mud under the gladiators’ feet. Nobody pays attention to it, but Zekee remembers.
She doesn’t remember
killing Korr’s murderer, not really.
She does remember the magic binding her limbs against her will, guts knotting in panic and pain and fear as the realization of what was going to happen crystallized in her mind. She remembers the sound of her own blood rushing into her ears loud like a scream- or maybe she was screaming, growling and snarling at the top of her lungs.
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was Korr screaming as she died, while Zekee helplessly struggled, powerless against invisible restrains?)
She remembers a night happened half a lifetime ago, a tussling becoming ferocious passion, laughter dissolving in the cold air. Caresses leaving bruises, Korr’s teeth tearing at the flesh of her ear like a brand, white-hot, and a fleeting emotion.
(
we could do this forever, I would be okay with that)
She remembers Korr’s corpse laying on the ground, an empty shell made of dust, the cheers of the audience muffled in the distance like leaves rustling in the breeze. Much closer, her murderer’s relieved chuckle, the reek of his unearned sweat.
Rage.
White-hot like the scar in her ear, her body slams into his, flattening him on the ground. She sees the fear in his eyes, and feels nothing. Her hands grip his throat; the man opens his mouth to scream, and she can’t stand it.
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you don’t get to have a mouth to scream with)
His skull hits the ground with a thud when she pushes him down, and his jaw breaks with a sickening snap when she pulls at it. Blood gushes, gurgles in the man’s throat, he still screams. He screams, unhinged mouth bobbing for a second like a broken puppet’s, and Zekee has to claw at the ruined insides of his throat to shut him up. His tongue gets discarded, his windpipe crushed.
Silence, at last.
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