hey! this is chance & here鈥檚 week 3鈥檚 prompt. share an excerpt that you鈥檙e very proud of from any of your wips.
This one isn't specifically from a WIP, more of a fandom drabble I wrote that I'm proud of.
Nothing graphic, oddly enough for me. Just a mother and her son having a bit of an argument. Includes some...sort of spoilers for Eden? Not much detail though.
All sound, all sights, all life seemed deafened within the eye of the storm. A black void, with the disgraced King sitting in the centre, reduced to a husk of his former glory. His hair was long and matted, his tattered robes engulfing his emaciated form, his wings reduced to bare bone protruding from his back - sitting limply on the ground, flight now a hazy memory. His aged ears did not hear the flapping of wings, and his old eyes could barely see the light that began to fill his prison.
"Son," a familiar voice. One that no deafness could escape. The voice of Megabird was not a sound that one heard around them, instead something that spoke from within one's own mind.
"Come to gloat, I see ?" Resh spoke bitterly, his voice raspy as if each word was a struggle.
"I would never enjoy the suffering of My Son, even if his actions have brought so much pain to My creations, including himself," Megabird sat in front of Resh, aware he could not see Her, but wishing to comfort him all the same.
"My actions ? My actions ? I wasn't the one who cursed the land- sent plagues and famine to ravage the kingdom just to punish Her Son for disobeying Her ! This is Your fault, this is all Your fault. You did this to me."
Megabird was silent for a moment, turning Resh's words over in her head.
"Feeling guilty, are You ? Good," Resh hissed at his mother's silence.
After what seemed like ages, Megabird spoke. "You think Me responsible for the 'unpredictable' illness of your citizens ? The failings of your kingdom's crops ? The deaths of your livestock ? Son, you took My Light. I was incapable of those actions until only recently, and only a portion of My power has been returned. I was imprisoned without My power much like you are now, for the entirety of your reign over your kingdom. Only when the contraption containing My Light exploded was I freed."
"LIAR !" Resh rose with surprising speed, although as he stood his body trembled like a crumbling building in an earthquake. "You sabotaged me- You ruined me. You took EVERYTHING. Just because I wouldn't play Your little game."
"Son..." Megabird's feathered hands hesitantly found their way to Resh's shoulders.
"DON'T TOUCH ME !" Resh swung his arm wildly, pushing Megabird away while also throwing himself once more to the ground. His breath quivered, feeling the cold endless floor against his face. He pushed himself - slowly, weakly - to his knees. "Don't."
"Very well," Megabird returned to the ground, this time a good distance away from Resh.
The pair sat in silence, the only sound to keep them company being that of Resh's own wheezing, laborious gasps for air as he repositioned himself. Megabird found it hard to look at him, considering how recently - in the timescale of the Goddess of All Creation - he had been a young and energized boy, full of life and promise, supposedly destined to take the helm as a God of Creation himself. But part of that transformation had been Her fault, hadn't it ?
"I am sorry, Son." The words cut the still air like a knife. "I know you are upset with Me...and in some regards, you have reason to be so. I forced you into your role at far too young an age...I thought that as a God you would have understood it, been able to handle reaping the souls of the dead, but I failed to anticipate how, in the manner I created you, it gave you a far more human sensibility. That...that led to all of this. Our fight. My loss. Your kingdom. And now we are here. I am sorry for how My shortsightedness led to all this pain."
"Now You've apologized for the first bit, where's the rest of it ?" Resh snapped. "Where's Your remorse for what You did to my kingdom ?!"
"I did nothing to your kingdom. I have been without My Light for centuries, entirely incapable of even taking a physical form, let alone causing the plagues and famines you blame on Me."
"If You didn't do it then who did ?!"
"No one."
"That's impossible. Someone was behind it all. And You are the only one it could've been, unless You have a sister I don't know about."
"The events which befell your kingdom, although tragic, were purely a result of the natural laws I created long, long before you were even a thought in My mind. The 'plagues' were not actual disease. It was a reaction that the ancestor form has to the minerals you had based your kingdom on. It is a complex explanation, but in simplicity, the 'diamonds' you created expelled a dangerous energy, capable of bringing illness to anyone exposed for a long enough time. That energy spread through your kingdom, along with other harmful things created as a byproduct of the industrialization you brought. It was not Me who caused your kingdom to fall. It was simply nature," Megabird spoke firmly, hoping to leave no room for error nor misinterpretation.
"No..." Resh murmured, his voice already so weak his words were barely audible.
"I had intended to explain all the laws of the universe I had created when you were older, and had completed what I saw as your training in dealing with the cycle of Rebirth. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to warn you."
"No, no, no, my kingdom did not fall because of nothing. It was You, it was always You. You can deny it all you want, but it's all Your fault," Resh lunged forward, grabbing blindly at his Mother's shoulders. "You did this, You did this, now You've trapped me here as punishment !"
"This place is not My doing either, Son. This is your creation. I fear it is your rage keeping you here. It has corrupted you."
Resh tried to wrap his hands around his Mother's throat, but as swiftly as she had arrived, she was gone. His hands closed around nothing. He screamed. A horrible, blood-curdling shriek, echoing off the mountains between the bouts of thunder and crashes of lightning. The storm grew darker around him.
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