Arsonist's lullaby – Hozier
Character is Kai (he has his powers)
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Humming…
I remember when I was so much younger, these voices that I had used to sing to me, some would scream. I didn't have much of a life as a child. All I could do was work in the shop our parents owned and it was hard but satisfying. Sometimes dad would let me near the forge. But the voices stayed with me forever, always there, always loud and never leaving without me hearing the echoes of their cry.
When my dad used to make a fire for us outside I'd sit around the flames with Nya. I'd watch those blazing flares light up the night and dance through the air. They looked so powerful, so vicious, so dominating as they burned the wood to nothing but ashes. I could barely tear my eyes away from the flying embers, even when someone was talking to me. The open flames hypnotized me.
As I grew old the tongues of fire further consumed me. I grew more and more attached to it every time my eyes gazed upon its dangerous beauty. And just like the fire, I became more reckless, I became more in love with it, more blinded by its bright light. I needed to leave and spread its power.
When I turned sixteen everything was this massive rush of adrenalin. Power, pain, hurt, heat, fire. I believed that I was part of this devastating element, I even thought gasoline drenched my clothes. And when I finally set a solid brick building alight, only then did I realise what true power was. The shooting embers were even hotter, burning everything and everyone down with it and it fed upon their lesser lives.
I remember smiling because I would have the honour of being servant to this supreme god.
I was to blame, I know that, I took those lives with the help of burning fire. Guilt silently grew stronger and I began detaching myself.
When I was a man I thought it ended, I thought my thirst for burning heat was quenched. I'd finally settled down with my own fiery love, he was perfect and the pain of loss in my chest dulled with his passionate presence.
But devastating reality ebbed its way over my mind, covering my eyes with the ashes of lost souls. The hunger came back like I'd been starved for millennia, like I'd been stranded in a desert with not a single drop of soothing water. My hands twitched with the need of wreaking havoc, my eyes darted everywhere, dying to see the light of destructive fire.
I missed it. I missed seeing the flames explode across the giant structure of man-made shelter. I missed the hot ashes it left behind as a taunting gift.
"All you have is your fire…" and now I sit in a claustrophobic room of four corners, white walls surrounding me.
"And the place you need to reach…" My arms restricted from creating its stunning flames by a tightfitting white jacket. Buckled and buttoned for the maximum confinement.
"Don't you ever tame your demons..." Demons that I unleashed on my home, burning down the aging wood and swallowing the love of my life in their scorching embrace.
"But always keep them 'em on a leash…" I crazed laugh uttered from my mouth, penetrating the hugging silence of the prison cell holding me captive.
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Well, yeah. Let a bit of crazy shine through at the end but that's okay right? I'm sure it is. Kai was the first ninja that popped into my head with this song, and then I pictured Cole singing to it and boom, ended up daydreaming about lavashipping all through accounting class. Oh well.
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