I have one more sort update after this that I may or may not include. Am
still debating on it, don't know if I want the story to end like this or a
little more upbeat.
Touched
Amber eyes turned away from the rays of the rising sun. It's light never to touch him again, as footsteps lead into the night of a hellish mind. No redemption. Everything he touched he destroyed, and now he wandered, a horror to the modern world. As blood colored light breached the horizon, a tired shadow vanished into the darkness of abandoned buildings. Their darkness welcoming him, as his weary soul dragging him down onto the ruined floor to slipp into a heavy sleep. In his dreams there were glimpses of peace, glimpses of sparkling blue eyes that offered him nothing but love. Then the darkness would come, her screams reaching his ears as she saw him for the monster he was. Blood coating his hands and spilling onto the floor beneath him--'Kenshin. . .' he herd her voice calling him in the dreams, but she was always one step ahead, always too far away to touch. He'd try, reaching out to meet only the faintest brushes of raven hair. 'Kenshin' her voice was more insistent now, he could almost imagine he was lying beside her, that he would wake up and she would be there. 'Kenshin, wake up.'
Amber eyes opened, their one-time glow lost in the sunken hallows of negled, and for a moment the dream remained and he met nothing but the vastness of blue eyes. But then it fell away, leaving him shivering in the hovel he now slept. Cold and alone, that soft part of him slowly wasting away and the beast was no longer rabid, but instead sickly and old.
The pain of an uncared for body meant nothing to him as he stood up, pain was what he deserved. In twilight's shadows black tattooed wings looked torn and broken, bones and sinew showed through sickly pale skin as he moved. Stiff limbs gathered his torn coat and battered sword, the weight of his sins, as he turned towards the setting sun. Behind him deaths shadow stretched out, waiting like an uncompromising lover for his embrace. An embrace that welcomed him as energy gave out, sending him falling to broken pavement. With a last struggle for hope, amber eyes closed and thought slipped away.
---Soon the night will take me and save me from my pain, Cloak me in cold darkness and help me lose your name---
Touched
Amber eyes turned away from the rays of the rising sun. It's light never to touch him again, as footsteps lead into the night of a hellish mind. No redemption. Everything he touched he destroyed, and now he wandered, a horror to the modern world. As blood colored light breached the horizon, a tired shadow vanished into the darkness of abandoned buildings. Their darkness welcoming him, as his weary soul dragging him down onto the ruined floor to slipp into a heavy sleep. In his dreams there were glimpses of peace, glimpses of sparkling blue eyes that offered him nothing but love. Then the darkness would come, her screams reaching his ears as she saw him for the monster he was. Blood coating his hands and spilling onto the floor beneath him--'Kenshin. . .' he herd her voice calling him in the dreams, but she was always one step ahead, always too far away to touch. He'd try, reaching out to meet only the faintest brushes of raven hair. 'Kenshin' her voice was more insistent now, he could almost imagine he was lying beside her, that he would wake up and she would be there. 'Kenshin, wake up.'
Amber eyes opened, their one-time glow lost in the sunken hallows of negled, and for a moment the dream remained and he met nothing but the vastness of blue eyes. But then it fell away, leaving him shivering in the hovel he now slept. Cold and alone, that soft part of him slowly wasting away and the beast was no longer rabid, but instead sickly and old.
The pain of an uncared for body meant nothing to him as he stood up, pain was what he deserved. In twilight's shadows black tattooed wings looked torn and broken, bones and sinew showed through sickly pale skin as he moved. Stiff limbs gathered his torn coat and battered sword, the weight of his sins, as he turned towards the setting sun. Behind him deaths shadow stretched out, waiting like an uncompromising lover for his embrace. An embrace that welcomed him as energy gave out, sending him falling to broken pavement. With a last struggle for hope, amber eyes closed and thought slipped away.
---Soon the night will take me and save me from my pain, Cloak me in cold darkness and help me lose your name---