feredar: (mel)
The Farglass Cycle ([personal profile] feredar) wrote2014-01-02 03:06 pm

In Darkness

Story: In Darkness
Year: 990 FY
Characters: Mel
Warnings: War, character death
Notes: This takes place in the Mel Lives AU.


He woke in darkness.

It took him a minute to drag his mind up from the depths and remember—the sentry, the fight, a horrible crunch of metal on bone—

Isshiri!

He tried to get up. It hurt, and there was a leaden weight lying across his chest.

He remembered—tackling King Kellom away, pulling the groundwater, falling.

Something broke above them, and there was Isshiri, face dusted with bruises, a web of terror and relief in his eyes, haloed in sunlight, reaching for him.

Swallowing back pain and horror at the body on top of him, he reached back.