This turned out differently than what I anticipated but I like it more that way. Besides, I have always wanted to write something on the Formless.
C-Cold
How would we define cold?
Well as the empty feeling that is constantly with us. We are not just simply physically cold.
We have no personal relationships and gain no enjoyment from tasks.
We have no goals, no hopes, not even dreams.
We just feel empty and void of all emotion and thought. We honestly don't care what we do, we just simply following orders because it's all we have ever yes, we know cold.
And of course the Master offers no warmth, no congratulations if we actually do good, only punishment if we fail. So maybe we can't really be surprised if this concept of "warm" escapes us.
We follow orders, we do as we are told and then we sleep.
And some how the sleep is worse. At least with the cold we experience something, at least we have each other even if we don't communicate. But with the sleep there is simply nothing.
There are no senses or thoughts just….nothingness. So we wait in the lonely darkness hoping we might be picked by the Master to be used just to escape the nothing.
We might be destroyed if we leave but really, that doesn't matter. Because someway or another we always come back.
Sometimes, new us come and we think of places where we use to know warmth. The sun on your skin, the feeling of arms around you, the gentle conversation of a friend. We don't really remember what these sensations feel like, just the hollow ghost of memories, but we like to pretend.
The Before Time was defiantly there though, we know that much. Even if it was long ago. Long before the Master, it was there.
Sometimes we wonder if this is all there is for us, this constant cycle of loneliness and worthless feeling.
The cold is our only companion, it is the only constant we feel. Because when our body is constantly moving and shifting, we have to have something to anchor us to reality. The cold is the only real thing.
And sometimes, we think about a concept we knew in the Before time.
The Fleshies use it to scare you into doing the "right thing". They call it a place where you experience terrible horrors that you can't escape. Some call it an endless cycle.
Sometimes we wonder if we have found it. Because if we have, we have something to tell them.
Hell isn't hot, it's cold and only cold.