Disclaimer: I do not own FFVII
Warnings: Angst, Blood, Goodbye, Short, Tissue and Violence/ Torture
Mindless Babble: This was a challenge to myself and to any one who wants to take it up: Write a fic using only scenes.
Muted sunlight streamed in through the small half circle windows, the iron bars casting long shadows on the straw covered floor. Dust particles danced in the pale orange of the dieing light, before falling once again to lie among their fallen comrades. Walls of grey stone bled with dark fungus and another coppery substance that had once been crimson but now turned black with dryness and age. The echoes of screams, torn from a body which no longer had a voice, seemed to hang in the stagnant air that reeked of blood and death. The instruments of pain and suffering only added to the environment of agony and sorrow.
They were scattered throughout the small room, some dropped in favor of another while others were simply too big to move. Leather, metal and wood combined to create a symphony of anguish. A few were now colored with flaking black while others were still vivid with glistening red fluid that glowed in the failing radiance. All had been used on the young man who hung by his wrist near the back wall.
Blood ran in rivulets down pale white skin that covered the skeletal form. Clothing had long ago been cut or torn from the ravaged body. Black and purple blotches were forming under welted flesh. Steel clamps encircled thin, boney wrist. Clumps of once wild fiery red hair now clung to the sweat drenched face, fever bright eyes hidden by eyelids too heavy to open. Blood dribbled past split lips as lungs struggled to draw in desperately needed air. A multitude of wounds had joined the twin pair of scars that resided on high cheek bones. Lines of pain were etched into pale tissue. Legs that could no longer bear the weight of the body were bent, shattered feet resting on the sticky floor in a pool in the body's own life essence mixed with the shamed tears which had fallen past bruised and bloodied cheeks.