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sumire ♀ - intimidate - crunch / gunk shot / wrap / coil / glare / haze

sakura ♀ - corrosion - flamethrower / venoshock / venom drench / knock off / endeavor / toxic

shion ♀ - poison touch - sludge bomb / outrage / hydro pump / toxic / smokescreen / camouflage

tsutsuji ♀ - infiltrator - air slash / hurricane / boomburst / roost / tailwind / whirlwind

Too much time in the darkness.

That's what you think. A lifetime spent there in the shadow. You didn't mind it at first, there wasn't much you wanted to see of this world anyway. But as time went on, as you forgot what it was like to live above ground, you felt choked by it.

The matcha choked most in the shade has the fullest flavor. That's what you fear most. You don't want that earthy umami flavor anymore. You want to be something else. SomeONE else. There was an entire life in the sunlight that you were missing in the underground, and now that you got out, now that you finally got out...

"I miss the sun already."

You whisper it in his ear so they don't hear you. It probably doesn't matter if you speak normally, given Tsu's white noise, but you don't wanna risk the element of surprise. Wars have been won and lost on that advantage alone.

"When this is over, bring me to the beach. I wanna go sunbathing and eat snowcones."

It's a demand, not a request. You're through making polite requests. You don't have time for that. You have a new life to live, and it's slipping by moment by moment, while you're down in some dank cave.

Tsutsuji's making noises, triangulating the direction of the Rockets in the dark. As she hones in, you can hear the scratch of her claws against the cavern floor, and you know it's time.

"... Ready when you are, Navy."

You climb up on your dragon's back. The way her fur is bristling already, you know it's a matter of time until she swoops in and attacks. She hates them nearly as much as you do yourself.

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“Yeah.” Navy tries very, very hard not to think about this girl in a bikini. He’s older than her. He’s her guardian. He’s exhausted from fighting. He has almost no energy left. But he has to keep pushing onward. If they’re going to get out of here alive, they need something to hold onto.[break][break]

If she wants to go to the beach together, he’ll make a trip out of it. They’ll gather up some friends. Have fun. They live in Slateport. Summer is just around the corner. He’ll let her enjoy the summer of her youth.[break][break]

“I’ll take you.”[break][break]

But they’ve work to do before that. They’re perched above the Rockets. Two of them, heading for the cave entrance. More nobodies. Foot soldiers. The sort of men that probably killed Gabe. His hands tighten around Ironsides’s reins.[break][break]

They took his life, so he’ll take theirs, too. He’ll ride his bird and he’ll run them through. Nodding to Tsubaki, he pulls Ironsides. Urges him into a swooping flight. The proverbial horn sounds, the charge begins.[break][break]

But on this battlefield, no one wins. There’s an acrid smell, his Pokemon’s breath. It’s odd, the things you notice charging into certain death.[break][break]

Ironsides is less a bird and more a flying blade. A missile, aimed directly at the Rockets below. They’re smart enough to notice him. They shout and they toss out a Golbat. Navy is forced to give Tsubaki a painful lesson in what war is like, as Ironsides plunges through the Golbat. He is reduced to a fine red mist as the bird comes skidding to a halt on the other side of the two. They toss more Pokemon out.[break][break]

“Look alive, kid! They’re comin’ for us!”

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She's a part of you, and you her.

This wild untamed beast beneath you shares your heart, cruel beyond measure to those it hates.

It lurches forward, and two silent wing beats later it's already atop them. A silent slash, the beat of wings that form the air itself into a blade. It is like the flash of a sword, a quickdraw technique. Like the swordmasters of old would kill with a single motion, she flaps her wings and strikes true with that same measure of control. The spray of blood, of viscera from a clean vivisection stains your face. A requiem for a monster spared this terrible fate, to be used by someone truly evil.

Body of the machoke falls aside, slumped over. A necessary sacrifice, breaking through the shields the rockets put between themselves and all who would oppose them. They could never be saved from the very beginning.

You can see panic rising in the dark, the pale of their faces as they are picked off one by one. It makes the venom that runs in your veins burn all the more, that they are frightened by such a macabre display. They are rockets, aren't they? And yet, they act like scared children.

You can't help but smile. Teeth flashing in the dark, surrounded by a color not dissimilar to the petals from a rose. Hot steam rises from your open mouth as you laugh, but no sound comes out.

"Tsutsuji... leave nothing alive."

A declaration that there shall be no quarter.

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Michael Navidson

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Sheriff

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Ironsides flaps his wings. It sends out a spray of iron feathers and rocks. They fall into place amidst the stones. Their colors shift at once. The stealth rocks and spikes make this terrain impassable for these grunts. They’re trapped. Two soldiers in this war, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.[break][break]
Under their caps, he sees the faces of kids. These people could have been him. They could have been Tsubaki. They scramble to toss out more Pokemon onto the field. One manages to free an Ivysaur from a ball. The other throws out a Pyroar.[break][break]
Both of them scream as their feet dig into the ground beneath them. They feel the jagged feathers. They fall prey to the tricks that Navy sets for them. Both Pokemon scream.[break][break]
This is inhuman. It’s not right. But it’s a battlefield. They’re meant to kill each other. That’s how this goes.[break][break]
No quarter was given to Gabe. No quarter was given to the other children he saw in the Sootopolis morgue on that fateful day. No mercy or gentle hand is given to the citizens of Sootopolis, who live under the thumb of a corrupted sea god.[break][break]
So, it’s hard to want to give them quarter. Navy shudders at that part of himself, denies it. Shuts it off. At the eleventh hour, makes a contradiction.[break][break]
“We have to take them alive!” He orders, knowing that Tsubaki is as likely to listen to that as the sleeping dragon at his waist. “We have to be better than them!” The grunts have no response to such words. That’s alright. They don’t have to talk.[break][break]
Ironsides whips up, flies at them on a mad collision course. Slams into the Pyroar, digging his blades into the lion’s skin. He sends up a gout of flame after the iron bird that scorches his wings and cooks him within his metal. Ironsides flies up, out of reach.[break][break]
It’s up to Tsubaki whether or not she complies. It’s her decision at the end of the day.

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Baki

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She needs no further prompting.

Tsutsuji is a fearsome wild beast, unstoppable as nature herself. A heart hardened to those who have wronged her again and again, those who do not deserve mercy. She has seen the worst of those who killed her former master, does not care at all when you speak those words. Rather, she seems pleased that she has your permission.

Gaping maw opens wide, and the ambient noise that leaks from her ears is focused ten thousand times, becoming a deafening buzz. Like speakers turned all the way up with nothing coming through.

You watch with cold eyes. The pain in your heart does not subside, is not soothed by what is to come. Revenge is a cruel and pointless act, you think.

Were the roles reversed, you know your life would be at jeopardy. Just as Tsutsuji's former master. Just as her. And so, it is kill or be killed. The moment you show weakness, they'll return your kindness.

But even so...

"Navy," you respond with a trembling voice.

You're drowning in a sea of venom. It's filling your mouth, your lungs. You can taste it on your lips.

It's so, so bitter. So lonely.

You don't want him to say anything at all right now. But he will, you know he will. He won't condone you surrendering to the worst parts of yourself.

"... A new leaf, huh?"

You scoff at the idea. It's so sad that you ever thought you could be someone better than the thing they turned you into.

This tea's been steeped for far too long, hasn't it?

You clutch your heart, ready to rip it from your chest. It would be much less complicated if you could just rid yourself of it, sink into that desire for revenge utterly and completely.

Instead, you simply cannot bear it.

"Tsu—"

You begin, but it's too late.

A wall of sound erupts, drowning out whatever you were gonna say. Falls down around them all and rips them apart. Louder than even your thoughts, you can't think of anything else but the bitterness that fills your cold, hollow heart.

This is everything that you are.

You cannot escape your past.

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Michael Navidson

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Sheriff

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Kicking up into the air, over the killing field of steel and stone, he listens. He sees the despair in her ruby eyes. He knows what is coming. It is a darkness he has lost himself in before. Navy resolves that it will not claim her.[break][break]
Even as the dragon under her shrieks its loud cry, he swears that to himself. The sound collapses the walls. Rocks come loose. They fall. Every human and Pokemon that can covers their ears. That ear splitting cry rings out. Navy cracks his knuckles. He’s too insane for his own good. His body’s already battered and broken by the rift that seems to delight in his torment. What’s a burst eardrum on top of everything else.[break][break]
Ironsides careens towards Tsubaki and her mount. He beats his wings, flapping about, spreading them wide. He soars over the traps he has spread. He tackles the Noivern. Navy jumps off at the precise moment that his bird connects with the girl. Grabbing her, he once more holds her like a knight might hold a maiden. He goes into a controlled roll, cradling her head and neck so nothing snaps.[break][break]
Ever the good big brother, that’s Navy in a nutshell.[break][break]
Ironsides turns and crosses his wings in a defensive stance, like he’s holding up two shields to protect his body. The Rockets are recoiling. Maybe they’ll even think to cut and run. But for now, they’re recovering. It’s the Noivern that may or may not be the issue.[break][break]
“You’re better than them.” Navy says to her. “You have to be better than them, Baki. Come on. You wanna go to the beach, yeah? Just think about that. Focus on it…” It’s the only thing he can think of to take her mind off of the horror lurking here, far beneath the civilized lands above.

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Your eyes widen as you hear him approach.

"Navy, wai—"

He doesn't wait. Of course he doesn't. The biggest busybody in the world will rush into the middle of everything without a second thought. It's in his nature.

You feel the collision, the attack knocking you into the air. You feel him embrace you, put his arms around you. Pleading with you.

He wants you to be the good girl who died all those years ago, the girl you forgot how to be by necessity. The girl the Rockets had killed, all without lifting a finger. Because you did it for them.

"Better than them... is such a low bar."

A helpless laugh of disappointment.

You hold onto him. Not for fear of falling. You've been doing that for years now, hurtling toward rock bottom.

No, because it is comfortable. He believes in you, truly believes that you can be redeemed. And whether you can allow yourself to ever believe that, the idea of someone so taken with that idea that the lose themselves in delusion, become intoxicated by it, be driven to this sort of madness... that's something you don't want to let go of.

At least, not yet.

You don't know where you're falling, but it doesn't matter. You're worried more about what's above you.

Somewhere up there, Tsutsuji unleashes a roar that shakes the entire cave. Stalactites fall from the ceilings and fissures form in the earth as pressure waves rock the air. Her explosive rage seems so distant from down here, and yet, she shapes the rock with her breath. A metallic clash echoes through the cave, like a sword against a shield, the air itself honed into a blade.

"I'm tired. Of what I gotta do, what I gotta be."

You're not sure what ground he has to stand on.

He drags you into this fight, does not shy away from blood. And yet, he's the one telling you to be better than those killers. Scolds you, for fighting on equal terms. Fighting in kind, the same way he does.

You're a hypocrite, Michael Navidson.

"Can't this be my choice, Navy?"

You ask that pointed question.

Your choices lead you to the place you'll eventually die, right?

And what if she's to die fighting this rebellion? Isn't that a cause worth fighting for? Can't this meaningless life at least have meaning in death?

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Michael Navidson

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Sheriff

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POSTED ON Apr 26, 2023 5:40:16 GMT

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After a long day of fighting these fights, it feels nice to hold someone. Hell, after years of fighting, it feels nice to hold someone. Truly be close to someone. But he fights that thought down as he watches Ironsides and the great wyvern do battle. Well, it’s one-sided. The steel bird is on the defensive, raising his shield-wings, flying away. Trying to evade the coming blows. He’s good at speeding away from trouble. It’s a talent he perfected when he was a chick fresh from the egg.[break][break]
“We’re still walkin’ on the road.” He says. “This isn’t where we die. Either of us. Not while this sea’s in control.” They’re all puppets on the strings of this dream sea. He’s fighting to cut these strings, to give himself a real choice. The longest day of his life can’t end soon enough.[break][break]
“You can make your choice. I can’t stop you. Even if I want to…” He remembers denying Gabe his chance to jump in and swim with the Gyarados or stay on Kohryu. He can’t catch all the children from falling off and tumbling into adulthood.[break][break]
“But I can believe that you’ll make the right decision.” He releases her, lets her go and decide for herself what it is she wants to do.

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Baki

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POSTED ON Apr 26, 2023 19:08:47 GMT

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He lets you slip from his grasp.

You're like sand. No shape or form, flowing to the lowest point like water.

That's always been the problem, hasn't it? The path of least resistance.

"Even if it's not today. It'll happen some day, won't it?"

He knows as well as you, losing someone dear to you, losing someone who was a part of yourself. It's like dying yourself, and yet, you have to keep going. With all of that pain, that sense of loss, not even granted that sense of finality. But dying all the same, because they were your entire life.

Those scars are a constant reminder of the day your heart was wrenched from your chest. They'll never disappear, they'll be with you til the day you join her in whatever comes after.

You long to see his scars.

Long to see the reminders that he will one day die, that is he is mortal. Because to you, this man who has forced himself into your life, taken everything upon him to give you someone to rely on. He seems larger than life. You don't believe for a second that he could ever die.

Even if he is immortal, you're not.

"I won't die old with regrets just cause I was afraid of death when I was still a kid."

To be afraid to live for something, she would never want that.

But neither would she want this, would she? And that's what he's been saying this whole time.

You look down, your skin pearlescent blue like you've been frozen. It's a vision. A hallucination. And yet, it feels so real, like your body's slipping away, like you're becoming someone else. Like you aren't even here.

There is a part of you left behind in that city beneath a void-sea. It makes your head swim, your heart tremble.

Perhaps he's wrong. Perhaps you've already died today.

"No, I'm not afraid of death... I've become it."

Sink, deeper. Plunge toward the bottom of that abyss and lose everything.

You'll be with them forever. Even in death, you'll never die.

Because he'll remember you.

Forever.

You raise a hand to the heavens and Tsutsuji is beneath you. She is your body, your will. In revenge, in somber reflection. She is the knife in which you'll carve your memories upon history, upon his body. You are scarcely there, a mere phantom. But you'll prove it, prove that you're real. Prove that you're still here, when others are not.

"Blow it all away... Tsutsuji..."

You whisper into her ears, quiet and gentle like a spring breeze. You are the darkness, the shade wherein the spring azalea blooms.

She acknowledges nothing but your command, cares for nothing else but to please the one person who would never betray her and her dream.

One flap of her wings. That's all it takes.

Galeforce winds, a hurricane summoned from thin air. Within the confines of this cave it makes no sense at all. Rebounding around the hardened walls, it grows and grows in intensity, like stirring a saucer of the finest brewed tea.

You watch it with anticipation, ready to drink of it. Ready to burn your throat on it.

Is this the will of the sea? Or is this simply what you've longed for, all this time?

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Michael Navidson

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Slateport

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Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

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POSTED ON Apr 26, 2023 19:24:03 GMT

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She’s wreathed in light. Beautiful as a siren tempting sailors to drown in the sea. Violent as the waves in which they die. Ironsides is under Navy in a heartbeat, scooping him into the saddle like a concerned parent. Ironsides looks up at her and covers both Navy and himself. The winds blow all. Encompass all. They shatter the walls of the cave like glass and send both Navy and the girl tumbling once more into the rift.[break][break]
The Rocket grunts are lost. No more. Nothing. Fleeing for their lives. Horrified of what they have seen. Nothing within these caves is worth their lives. This is a lesson that the leadership of these gangs would do well to heed. Navy is terrified of what he sees, this terrible goddess of the formless sea. Wreathed in all its unknowable depths. Something chews bones in the distance. Strange shapes fly through the darkness. Neither man nor Pokemon was meant for this place. They are within a foreign land. Trapped here, now.[break][break]
Yet still, Navy is resolute. Yet still, while the winds howl, Ironsides’s defenses hold steady. He flaps his wings, rides the wind, surges upwards. It’s a dazzling twirl. Something that even the famed skyriders of legend would be impressed by.[break][break]
It can’t end like this.[break][break]
“You’re not dying on my watch.” He says in a stubborn voice. He’ll get up no matter how many times he’s kicked down. He won’t hit a woman. Can’t bring himself to hurt one, but the Pokemon under her is fair game. Ironsides rushes in, streaking across the Noivern’s body, his wings trying to cut into its form.[break][break]
“Come to your senses, kid! It’s somethin’ in the sea that’s doing this to you. You looked like you’d been stung when I first found you! We’ve gotta get you to a doctor!”

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Saffron City

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Wings shaped like blades strike true. Her belly is slashed open, and a screech rumbles the earth. The ceiling of the cavern seems to shift, sending boulders raining down.

Tsutsuji immediately bears down, grappling Ironsides with her claws, holding it in place. Opening her maw wide, and unleashing an explosive shockwave of sound that rattles the insides of the hollow bird.

An uniform metallic body, it is easy to find the frequency to make the entire pokemon's body resonate.

"What do you know about the sea!"

You scream, over the dragon's screeches.

You've seen it. Vast cities haunted by ghosts, remnants of a golden age long past. A civilization completely destroyed by something it did not understand. The void-sea is so similar to the premonitions you see, tsunami of black sludge washing over the citizens of Saffron while they sleep. None of them all the wiser til it's too late. One day they'll awaken it. It'll happen to them, too.

Something there, at the bottom of the abyss, calls to you. You long for it, and it, you. It loves you, unlike anything else.

It merely wants to show you how to avert the end of the world.

"I-I... think you're the one who's been stung!"

He's the one attacking.

Your precious pokemon. You, the one he was sworn to protect.

There's a part of you that longs to drag him down to your level. Always looking down on you, trying to protect you.

He pisses you off.

You wanna open his scars, you want to pour acid into them, and show him — that he's just the same as you at the end of the day. Someone who would do awful things, too, to end his suffering.

Your heart beats in your head. It's so shallow, it hurts so bad. It feels like molten iron in your veins will overflow. But you can't understand, why the thought of hurting him, this man who saved you...

... is so, so appealing.

"Let me closer! I'll bite you and suck out all the poison! Before it's too late, Navy... please!"

An impassioned plea, from someone desperate to help. You mean it, from the bottom of your heart, and yet...

You smile.

You don't know why, but you smile.

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Michael Navidson

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Sheriff

5'10" / 177.8 cm height

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Men are utterly idiotic creatures. They act from the heart, and do so dumbly. This man sees a wounded girl. A girl with venom dripping from her lips. He cannot fathom that there is malice in her. He denies his own truth, that a person is ultimately killed by their own decisions, however small. Her decisions brought her here.[break][break
Even the rift cannot truly be blamed. She chose to accompany him here of her own volition, to the town nearby. That she slipped and fell into this place is merely a consequence of that decision. She could have chosen to stay in Slateport and in so doing, avoided this place. But she chose to join the dance. She stepped up to the plate.[break][break]
And this sea adores her for her actions. As they hate the man rushing in to save her. Ironsides turns in mid-air so quick that Navy’s neck almost snaps. He’ll feel that in the morning, but for now, he has larger concerns. The way she’s looking at him. The red hell of a smile in her eyes.[break][break]
Navy brings Ironsides in close..[break][break]
And he jumps. Right onto the back of her Noivern. He grips her close. He does not let go. He does not think about how close they are. He holds her, knowing that the beast beneath them will not buck off her own rider.[break][break]
“You’re not biting anything, Baki. I’ve got you. I’m not gonna let go again. Not until you’re better. Hate me all you want later. Right now, right here, I’m putting everything I’ve got into keeping you alive!” He digs his boots into the side of the Pokemon beneath him, expecting resistance.

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Tsutsuji kicks off of Ironsides for leverage, takes to the air again with another passenger on her back. A flap of her wings that cut the air, and the skarmory is sent hurtling into the air below.

The dragon doesn't notice what's on her back, too focused on the destruction ahead of her. What she has yet to destroy, incinerate. She bellows, and a pillar of solid granite shatters straight ahead of them. They shoot through the cloud of dust.

"Let me... go!"

You resist. His arms around you are like Sumire's body. Thick and strong, liable to crush you. But gentle, even if they have the ability to squeeze the life out of you. You wrestle fruitlessly against them, trying to escape.

"I'm better...! Better than I've ever been in my life!"

You say that.

You say that, but through all the rush, sinking into a sea of pleasure, you can't help but wonder how much of that is true. There's something slowly creeping up, a fear that this all feels too good, too right. It feels so, so good, you can't hardly stand it.

Your heart's racing, your head's so warm. Your entire core is on fire, chills running down your spine, up your arms and legs.

And it feels sooooo good.

"Please... don't..."

... don't look.

You cover the back of your neck, lift your hair out of the way.

He's close enough he can see it now, even in the dark.

It's embarrassing, like covering kisses from a lover. Hiding your shame. Hiding where it felt so, so good to be touched, to be tasted for the first time. To be savored.

But he's probably already seen them.

Glowing barnacles where you first made contact with it. You can feel them ripple under your touch. The judgement you know he'll have in his heart, for someone like you to have been tainted by the void-sea, your skin beginning to turn black.

It's telling you now in whispers in the back of your mind, closer than Navy himself. You can still save him. You just need to lean down...

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Michael Navidson

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The sight of them drains the color from his face. A rocky outcropping that would make sense, down in the depths of the sea. Why is that growing on her? She’s human. Humans are creatures who can’t sit still for more than a day without going a little crazy. It’s why prison is such a harsh punishment. It forces them to sit and stay in place and never advance. Yet what’s growing on her should only be possible if she stayed in one place under this sea for months. Years, maybe.[break][break]
“…shit, kid.” That’s all he can bring himself to say as he fights to stay on the Noivern Tsubaki calls Tsutsuji. There’s probably a pun in there, but he’s not digging for gold in that mine.[break][break]
His hand grips the barnacle. It’s stupid, but…[break][break]
Maybe it’ll get better if he can rip that growth out of her. So, he holds her close and he does that. He does what any good guardian would do in that situation. He does everything that he can to protect this girl. Symbolically, he’s denying this place’s right to her. He will not allow it to grow on her body. He will not let whatever god holds court in this place have Tsubaki. Not now, not ever.[break][break]
“Sorry if this hurts.” He says and pulls at the barnacles, like he’s ripping a band-aid off her neck.

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