ashes

feelings too strong to be expressed
no words will do, they must be suppressed
they are burning; a fire inside of me
i never knew it hurts this much to feel

Archibald Degoré

  

Archibald was born in the slums of a city; he does not remember which one - his family ran away from there when he was very young, because of his father's debts. Since then, they lived in a remote village on the south, in area near Alaenar, the pirate city. Once, the village was pillaged by bandits; and they took all men and women that they liked to sell them as slaves (some ships were still powered by people captured in this way; and some lords liked to play with girls in a manner that left them unable to function after the games were done). The leader of the pack took a liking to the boy (who was now 12) and took him in, to teach him and make a courier and a spy out of him. The boy had no complaints; he thought it was the best way to live - taking from others, all for himself; and he gladly accepted all that the old man had taught him. And when the bandit leader died, during a big fight where they won only thanks to the boy (who grew into a man with fairly interesting tastes), it was only natural for the boy to succeed him - after all, he spent last ten years preparing for that.

But once he got that position, he realised how much of a burden it was; and after killing an innocent girl on the peak of his frustration, he decided to let go of those people (while getting as much as he could out of it, of course) and start anew. What could go wrong with that, anyways?

word vomit/odd one out

words i spit
out and repeat
now, and the beat
of my heart is lit
by this hit
in the middle of it

"you will get better", they say
"just be happy and it'll go away
start thinking positively without a delay
sad thoughts are bad anyway"