Inkblots
By Deep Color
Rorschach test (rôr'shäk), n. a diagnostic test of personality based on the viewer's interpretations of a standard series of inkblot designs.
MURAKI
Something
Stirs
in the black
Smelling of flesh
And blood.
A
crow
Cries to the world
Of a ritual taking place
A death.
Muraki stares down at his blood-stained body, wondering why he even made contact with the bloody corpse of the boy. But those emerald eyes… wide open as they were but dead as they can be, were that of Charlotte's porcelain green eyes.
Charlotte, Muraki's favorite blonde doll from decades ago, painfully comes to mind. A distant memory of a shallow banter and the echoing sound of porcelain breaking as his miniature lady hit the floor remind him of the pain of loss. A quick piercing sensation stung his heart, and it was all for the world to see then, that doctors could feel pain too.
Muraki wants to forget, but does not try to.
The red curse marks shine more crimson than blood could have ever shone, and the moon is laughing, staring silently in the stillness. The wind whispers to Muraki's ear like Charlotte once did, humming his favorite melody for him when they were alone.
It was painful to be fixed, and the scars from the wounds would never return to how they used to be. Muraki lowers his face to kiss the lips of the broken, naked boy. He tells him that there is no place in the world for a disobedient doll, and that he finally forgives him, his Charlotte, now that he has paid with his death.
Her stiff, timid, porcelain smile was an imprint in his head that could never be erased. So was Saki's. Muraki runs his hand on the boy's face, making the wide-eyed emerald stare disappear forever under his pale eyelids.
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I hope that wasn't too bad a start…
If you check through my other works, this style of writing is very, and I mean VERY different from my usual. I have incorporated excerpts from random poetry I have written years ago and the story that follows is based from it.
This will be a series of short stories like this one, one chapter per character. There will be an implied link from the event/character/emotion of the last chapter to the next one. If you haven't noticed yet, this is a 100-percent revised and re-uploaded version of the whole Inkblots series. The older one started with Oriya, and people, including me, seemed to have developed an immediate bad impression on the whole series because of that chapter, so I removed it and started with our favorite character, Muraki.
Next chapter: HISOKA
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