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Posted by nyota on November 24, 2008, 3:19 pm nyota *
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Why do you hate me, Nyota?
The spell is broken then, and indeed her mouth burns where she touched him. She is breathless, so driven by the lingering passion that dissipates as quickly as it was forced into her, and fearful of the thing she has become underneath his will. Her sides are laced with sweat, her head low and she takes a few slow steps away from him. The pull of the Shards allows her no more than that, and the thought of leaving is not even permitted to cross her mind. Her Earth is quelled, but she can feel the rustle of it against his Lightning, testing its boundaries even as he lists off all the ways she could possibly hate him.
“It has little to do with Requiem, or with our first meeting,” she says. Perhaps, she thinks, her hate was fundamentally because of Requiem. Her lover’s distaste for the Rogue had certainly influenced her after their first encounter.
But her tongue is loose now, encouraged by the Shard and its Keeper to tell the truth which – in fact – she would do anyway. “I will never forget…” she starts, moving again closer to him, her star-laced eyes shining fiercely before his. “I will never forget seeing Anatole encased in your Water,” she says, a shiver shaking her spine as she continues, “and fearing that you were going to kill him. That fear, Betrayal – the fear that you were going to harm him… that is what spurs me to hate you.”
She feels then, the water creeping up her legs and the Sight tells her that she will not escape. She does not mind, really, even before the Shard takes hold of her again, pulling her against him and under him. She does not mind because he was right – he has always brought out the worst in her; he has always been able to find the small patches of darkness, the small places that even the bright Oracle cannot avoid, and magnify them.
She is not listless beneath him, but rather goes through the sensual motions that the Shard forces her into. There is a strangled cry from her thin lips as the ice cracks along her legs; then, her Earth surges against his Lightning and she closes his mind from hers. Still, she cannot help but think of Requiem and how ashamed of herself she is that it is Betrayal moving inside of her now, even after all his warnings and protection. For the first time in many months, she wonders where he is and misses him painfully. She thinks of Choke, too, and wonders how she would ever tell him – how this will break him, how this will shatter their perfect little love.
When he slides away from her – their business finally complete – she hears the quiet tinkling of glass as it shatters beneath him. He draws her ear into his teeth and she pulls her head away, losing the tip of her right ear in the process. It bleeds now, but she lets the blood flow, her eyes glittering like dark fire as she stares at him.
If he asks, you will not tell him. You will tell him how foolish he is to think you are anything but his; that his fears are unfounded and hurtful. You will lie to him, Oracle, and make your lies his truth.
He leaves her then, and she is not surprised. What she doesn’t know – what her Sight cannot tell her – is that she will never get the chance. That someone has already seen them together, already told Choke, already brought her world to an abrupt and frightening halt. But she nods dutifully anyway, and is then released from the Shard’s hold.
For a few, stunned moments, she watches him retreat, her eyes still burning fiercely.
* * *
As Betrayal is leaving her, he will be stopped – not by Nyota, or even by Kivuli. Instead, a tiny plant with purple flowers and round, shiny black berries will wriggle as he passes by. Probably, Betrayal will hardly notice it until, all at once, it erupts in a kind of glittering, blinding, blue-green light that is the product of Nyota’s super, Nox Finis. Her ability does not aim to maim or harm, but as the Nightshade plant dances at Betrayal’s feet, perhaps he will realize who sent the subtle reminder and perhaps he will realize what it means.
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