Scared, #Addergoole Post-Apoc, for the Giraffe Call
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kc_obriens's prompt, following Finding Comfort ( LJ)
Faerie Apoc, Addergoole, the main storyline characters but 50 years in the future - landing page here (or on LJ)
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"At the end of the day... people want to be scared." Rozen shrugged, as if to say it wasn't his fault. "They want to know that there are things out there that will hurt them. Monsters. Boogeymen. Things that are worse than they are. It makes them feel alive. It makes them feel justified in their hatred."
Kai stared at him over tea, pondering his justification. "They fear," she agreed. "All sentient beings feel fear."
He smirked back at her. "Even you?"
"Even you," she countered. "Can you deny it honestly?"
"Of..." he frowned running against her orders to honesty, and shook his head, struggling with that one. "I'm... damnit."
Kai sipped her tea and waited. She was afraid, of course. She had a tiger by the tail, and it was only a matter of time before he either found a way to attack her or to attempt escape. But the fear would do her no good here, and so she did her best to ignore it.
He started and stopped sentences several more times, her captive boogeyman, her big bad wolf. "People like their fears solid and external," he argued, rather than answering the question bothering him. "They could have dealt with me, if they wanted. Fifty, sixty, seventy humans armed with hawthorn and rowan could stop me, if they caught me by surprise. They chose to continue to pay my price."
Seventy humans armed with hawthorn... She tilted her head. "Or one woman in your bed who betrays you."
Rozen, her monster, twitched and shuddered. “Or that.”
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kc_obriens's prompt, following Finding Comfort ( LJ)
Faerie Apoc, Addergoole, the main storyline characters but 50 years in the future - landing page here (or on LJ)
Commenters: 0
"At the end of the day... people want to be scared." Rozen shrugged, as if to say it wasn't his fault. "They want to know that there are things out there that will hurt them. Monsters. Boogeymen. Things that are worse than they are. It makes them feel alive. It makes them feel justified in their hatred."
Kai stared at him over tea, pondering his justification. "They fear," she agreed. "All sentient beings feel fear."
He smirked back at her. "Even you?"
"Even you," she countered. "Can you deny it honestly?"
"Of..." he frowned running against her orders to honesty, and shook his head, struggling with that one. "I'm... damnit."
Kai sipped her tea and waited. She was afraid, of course. She had a tiger by the tail, and it was only a matter of time before he either found a way to attack her or to attempt escape. But the fear would do her no good here, and so she did her best to ignore it.
He started and stopped sentences several more times, her captive boogeyman, her big bad wolf. "People like their fears solid and external," he argued, rather than answering the question bothering him. "They could have dealt with me, if they wanted. Fifty, sixty, seventy humans armed with hawthorn and rowan could stop me, if they caught me by surprise. They chose to continue to pay my price."
Seventy humans armed with hawthorn... She tilted her head. "Or one woman in your bed who betrays you."
Rozen, her monster, twitched and shuddered. “Or that.”
This entry was originally posted at http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/162961.html. You can comment here or there.