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white lily cookie ([personal profile] lilyberation) wrote in [community profile] totherelentless2025-03-22 08:05 pm
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-23 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ What else was he to do but wander the halls like a ghost and keep the place up-kept? He had learned how to change his tail into legs so that he may escape the lake for a few moments of time, but that didn't mean he was free. He would never make it far without a steady source of water, and the only source was the lake. As much as it hurt, the water too pure for him, it was the only thing he had.

So he wandered the mansion and kept it clean, and sat in his prison, and thought of the one who abandoned him. She had kept him like a pet, claimed she loved him, made him dependent on her and need her, then left him.

How long had it been? He grew and she didn't return. He learned and the place remained silent. He kept and he waited and he sat in his lake and stared at the sky and wondered why. Why had she left him? Why hadn't she let him go before she left?

Why wouldn't he die?

It's a day like any other when he hears the door open, and for a moment he's not sure what he's hearing. No one but him opens the door, but he's obviously not opening it. He stares blankly in the direction of it before moving towards it. His legs ache and he needs to return to the lake soon, but curiosity has him gripped tight. He's not expecting to see a figure and he stops dead in his tracks.

Maybe he should be afraid, but he's stopped feeling that. And he can't see well enough in the darkness, he hasn't bothered turning on any lights. ]


Who are you?
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-23 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Lily...

[ He says her name at the same time she does, not even needing to hear her say it to know it. The moment she began to speak, it clicked together in his head. He steps forward quickly, closing the distance, coming close enough for her to see.

For him to see her. ]


You came back.

[ He doesn't know what to feel. Anger, that she left him. Relief, that she returned. It took a while but she returned. Pain and despair and hope and a fierce burning need. ]
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-23 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ That hurts for some reason and pain flashes across his face, before his brows furrow down. He struggles with his emotions, experiencing them again after so long is leaving him reeling. ]

Why would you lie about that?

[ He sounds so hurt, unable to keep the emotion from his voice. Why would she lie?! She has they key, she has the amulet, he can see them both clear as day this close. She looks a little different but time has passed, of course she would.

She came back and now she wants to pretend she was never here to begin with? ]


Why?!
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-23 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't understand? He doesn't understand why she's lying but also telling the truth? Of course this mansion is her families?

And now she's saying she's... not herself?

He doesn't understand any of this and it's frustrating. She was always selfish, greedy, demanding, and she would sometimes play games but not games like this. He doesn't understand how to come at this particular one. Does she want to pretend like it's their first meeting?! He grew legs for her when she stopped coming to the lake to seek her out!

And she wants to pretend she doesn't know him! ]


I don't like this game, stop playing it!

[ He reaches out to grip his hand around her wrist and drag her forward, down the hallway, to a picture of herself. Commissioned on one of her better days. ]

It's you!! Stop pretending you don't know you! That you don't know me! Didn't you say you loved me? Why would you play you don't!
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-23 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
No!

[ No no NO! He all but throws her arm aside in his violence in letting it go and covers his face with his fingers. A growl echoes deep within his throat.

Many often see Merpeople as delicate gems of the ocean, beautiful and serene and helpful to sailors. Maybe, when he was younger, he had been. But he's older now and he's been forced to be alone for so long, held away from his people, singing songs to no one. He's long stopped being a delicate gem.

Many often forget the "Monster" side of Merpeople. Those that would sing and lure sailors to their deaths, as food. ]


Then leave!!

[ His cry is pain and anger, a wild wail as he turns himself away. ]

If you're not her then leave me alone! Go away! GET OUT!
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-24 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ And he listens to her go and he screams, the sound following after her like a cry of a wounded animal. Like someone whose just had their heart torn from their chest, but he lets her go.

He lets her go because it's what she wants.

As she flees one way, he will plod his way in another. His steps taking him from one part of his jail to another, outside to the still pristine lake that was made for him. He tugs his robes off and slips into the painful water. It burns and scalds, but it's water and he needs it, letting his legs reform into a tail, scales appearing along his skin (red and blotchy, irritated, peeling) and webbing along his fingers.

And he merely floats there on his back, staring up at the sky. Watching clouds shift, colors change as time passes. He'd rotted a bit like this at first too, letting himself starve as he simply floated there and watched day turn to night turn to day again, an endless marching cycle.

He doesn't know she stayed instead, doesn't know she's made her way upstairs, the windows open for the cool air to keep the place from being musty.

So he doesn't know she will hear it when he sings, the song lyricless but melodic, an aching painful thing that shivers lonely in the air. He sings to no one but he sings, as if hoping someone will hear and come and get him. So he won't be lonely anymore. ]
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-24 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't notice the lights at first, drifting as he is, until he eventually rotates and sees the lights sparkling on the lake. He rights himself to stare at them, then turn his attention to the windows.

Light shines gently from them. From Lily's office.

His heart clenches. Did she stay? Is she really back now?! Did she stop her pretending? He swims towards the edge of the lake and crawls himself up, concentrating to shift his legs despite them still being wet. It hurts but he doesn't care, and it's only partial. Scales and the webbing remains.

Then he's up and running - forgot his clothing oh dear - to quickly enter the mansion and race his way upstairs. He stumbles a few times, his legs aching, but he ignores it to push the door open of the office when he reaches it.

His motions are almost wild. Did she stay?! ]
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-24 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
You stayed!

[ He ignores her question - what are things that are simply not important for 1000 Alex? - as elation fills him. It doesn't matter if she's her or not, she stayed.

He has to get her to stay. ]


Have you eaten yet?! It's late, you should eat. I know how to cook some things, I can make you something. You should rest too, not at the desk, you'll hurt yourself. I can have your bed made for you!!
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-24 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ He simply doesn't care. She stayed! She stayed!! He told her to leave and she didn't!! Now if he's good, if he does well, maybe she will remain forever.

The noise he makes is musical, a sweet whistling human. ]


No, that's no good!!

[ He turns and exits the way he came, his feet slapping against the floor as he runs back down stairs.

Tumbles downstairs. Ugh, his legs ache, he didn't soak long enough, he didn't dry them before changing. Whatever, it doesn't matter. He's got some dinner to make for her!

He hopes she likes fish. ]
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-24 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's raw looking. His scales no longer are the gorgeous golden shine they once were, dull and peeling instead. The webbing between his fingers and toes, slowly fading as he dries more, looks like it overly dry skin. His skin might have once been a healthy tan is now more ashen. Even his hair and eyes are flat, unkempt. He's skinny, his landing is making his knee bruise already.

He's beaming like the light came back into his life. ]


No it's fine! I'm strong! You just came b- you just arrived, let me show you hospitality!

[ Stay with me, stay with me, never leave me again, please. I'll be good, I'll be obedient, I need you, I want you. He climbs to his feet, gently helps her up as well, then turns and quickly disappears down a hallway.

Are you sure you want to leave a merperson around fire? ]
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-25 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ The shriek at being tackled is shockingly musical, as all his sounds are, and they both sort of just go down into a pile. At least he's covered by her own clothes now, even as he lays there in surprise.

She's hugging him - to hold him down - but all he can see is her hugging him. She's hugging him! She's being herse- she's- ]


You know how to cook?

[ Yes, clearly that's the most important thing here. He didn't think she did, she always had her servants cook for her.

This isn't her, but it is her. It even smells like her. Kinda. ]
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[personal profile] purevanillacookie 2025-03-25 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ She lives alone? That doesn't seem right. How does she survive without her servants? She's so frail, so ill almost all the time.

Is this really, truly, not her?

He lays there under her for a moment, blinking lightly. She said "please".

It really isn't her, is it?

Yet she's close enough. And since she asked. ]


All right.

[ What else can he do? ]
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