What Are You?

What are you?

“Human, last time I checked”

“The last thing you will ever see”

“”Ixia Canarcerot, Last of my Line, Condemned”

“I’m still human, right?”

“Witness my majestic glory and despair”

“First Witness, Heir to Seven Empty Thrones,”

“please tell me I”m still human”

“Gaze upon my unending radiance as it bleaches your mind”

“Sixth herald of the empty sky, Priest of the Discordance, Servant of the Blood,”

“please I have to still be human please”

“Your resilience is admirable, but futile. Within merely a moment more, you will fall”

“Queen of all amour above and below, King of the Sharpened Blade,”

“please I have a family I don’t want to die not like them not like this”

“What exilir, what stolen blessing, what accursed ritual is keeping you here?”

“Monarch of Absence, Bearer of Twelve Thousand Forms, Icetamer,”

“no fuck no no this isn’t real this is a dream just a dream I just need to wake up”

“YOU! SHOULD! BE! DEAD!”

“First, and now I suppose last and only member of the Order of the Shallow Claymore,”

“I’ll wake up and my hand will go back to normal and I’ll still have my legs and OH GOD WHY ARE THERE EYES THERE”

“WHY! WON’T! YOU! DIE!”

“Singer of the Song of the Fifth Wind, Disciple of Myself, Student of Meti, Squire of Blindness,”

“I’m pinching myself it’s not working why isn’t i AARGH FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK IT’S STUCK IN MY ARM”

“That foul and treacherous beast! Why would one such as YOU agree to its terms?”

“Denier of Abbreviations, Six hundred and Fourteenth Host of the Midnight Verdance, at your service”

“god, if you’re there, i’m sorry. i’m so, so, sorry.”

“…Very well. Make it quick.”

“Please, remember me as I was, not as I will soon be.”

They seem to have many answers, these souls whom I question. It matters not. By the time I can ask them, their fate is clear. Corpses, all the same, each one with some link between them-here, their own blade driven through their heart. Thus the cycle continues, until some force beyond even mine sees fit to break it again. Then, and only then, will I move on. For now, trying to guess the link before I see it keeps me entertained.