text; un: padlocks

[enblightened]

those capable of magic i need you

i need to better bind myself

enchant or curse or whatever you do hold me back just hold it back all of me

i need more bonds more locks more

oh i am not enough


[cw: mention of cannibalism in comments]

Comments

[holyjudgmental]

I am a pitiless sister of the scourge and the char. I have never once offered you mercy worthy of the name. And yet you, who know well my cruelty, ask for my hand to be stayed.

That, then, is the act of a beast lost to darkness?

[enblightened]

I-- [He sighs. Junia is so immensely stubborn.]

No. It is not.

[holyjudgmental]

...there is much that is difficult to bear. You have found such strength before. The Flame kindles anew.

[enblightened]

...I suppose that... we all have had our weaknesses. And we have always found our way back.

[holyjudgmental]

So it has been, so it will be, by the grace of the Light.

Will you rest? Much is easier in the dawn.

[enblightened]

I will certainly attempt, Sister.

[holyjudgmental]

...may you be veiled in holy Light.

[The blessing of sanctuary, never quite directed to him before.]

Go, then, before you succumb to further flagellation.