(A/N) Hi guys! This is a collection on oneshot-ish or short stories of like people's deaths (be it being retold or made up) or happy things (like someone kissing or something). I've never done a collection of oneshots before, so bear with me. Alrighty, here's the first one!
Prentice's POV
Prentice's Memory Break
I SAW ALDEN AND QUINLIN WALK INTO MY prison cell with grim looks on their faces. I knew why. They were finally going to perform a memory break, a last resort of gaining secrets from someone, while shattering their sanity, on me, to grasp the tiny truths I'd discovered in my research.
When they approached my chair that I was bound to, I stayed calm. I knew that my moonlark would save me.
They went to opposite sides of my chair. "This is your last chance to cooperate, Prentice." Alden said. "You won't have to lose your sanity."
I stayed silent. If they wanted to fish around my mind, I'd like them to try.
After a moment, Alden and Quinlin shared a look of well this guy's not cooperating.
They silently shuffled closer, and Alden placed his fingers on my temples. Quinlin put his hands on Alden's head and mine. I guessed that that meant that Quinlin was the guide, and Alden was the one breaking me.
I felt him slip into my head, probing my mind to see if he could find anything. When he couldn't, he frowned. My defenses were too strong.
Then he did something that I couldn't feel. Then all of a sudden, every memory I had burst out of the darkness. I tried to keep them under control, but I couldn't.
Happy, sad, mad, they were all there. My feelings were unleashed as well. Alden winced. I thought, if he's going to break me, I'll hurt him too.
I let all of my pain flood out of me, but everything else went with it.
Wylie looking at me when I told him to remember me.
Cyrah holding me tight when I told her I'd be gone.
My swan song. I had called my swan song when I knew I'd be captured.
I saw what might happen to my family when I leave.
Wylie being bullied at Foxfire for being a criminal's son.
Cyrah moving away with Wylie to get away from the snipes and stares.
Everyone who were close to me being shamed.
But then I remembered something else.
Someone turned me in.
I kept repeating that thought until I felt a thought being ripped away from me.
The moonlark's DNA!
I screamed, shouted, clawed at my head. But in the end, they got it. And my mind went down, down, down into the darkness.
Remember me.
(A/N) Did you like it? I hope so. Thanks for reading. And sorry it was so short! I promise the next update will be longer. Bye!