kinda sorta for ImpossibleThings12/burnt up feeling's october writing challenge 'cause i love a good set of prompts
updates will hopefully be everyday. therefore, they'll be super short
one: a girl falls
"I thought you loved me," he says, gritting his teeth as he pushes against her spear, feet rising dust as they slide along the dirt of the mountain.
"I loved Luke Castellan," she says as he ducks her advances and takes higher ground, "not whoever you are."
Either sweat is dripping off her face or tears are. He cannot tell, but he assumes the first. "I'm still Luke. I just know more now."
"Know what? Know how to murder? I think you do, having seen your skills firsthand—" she yelps when he manages to slice her thigh.
"I was going to come back and save you, Thalia."
"Even if you had, which I doubt," she presses against his sword and lets out a small sigh, "I would have killed myself before joining you."
"Don't be a pawn to Olympus, Thals. They don't care about you. I do."
"I hate you," she breathes.
In that moment, she slips and falls over the edge, and Luke tries to catch her. He fails. She falls.
had mount tam gone differently.
-dee