THE DREAMING CITY; Queens Court

THE DREAMING CITY;   queen’s court

for @seasonedfury !

     Like so many nights before, she stands at the edge of the tower’s hangar. Looking out over the vast expanse of the Last City, ears ringing with the white noise of the tower and its people settling in for the evening, the sights, and more notably the smells, are still no less alien to her. She has been here for two years. Every day that ticks by is longer than the last, and every week shaves another mile from the time it takes for Petra’s mind to travel home. 

     A corsair, made emissary - A sword, meant to cut across the stars, dulled down on a grindstone into a butter knife, kicking and screaming all the while. Petra still feels like a sword. But she is still so, so far away from where she is meant to be. And for what?

     She watches them every day, throwing themselves from the tower into oblivion. She watches their ghosts drag them back into life molecule by molecule, and she loathes the faint scent of smoke, or ozone, or the sudden disparity of any scent in particular that surrounds them each time they return. How was she to know? How could she have? Her hands curl into fists around the railing at the sound of footsteps approaching, and she sucks in a deep breath, glancing over her shoulder to regard the newcomer with her lone eye.

     “Come to gloat? Or to chastise? I thought you had all gotten that out of your systems during the hearings.” She knows she speaks out of turn, but it has been too long a night, and Queen Mara is so very far away. So be it, if her sentence here is lengthened - She is already in her own personal hell, and how personal it is.

[starter call! i’ll try to get them done by tonight.]

‘ these scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole. ’

sentence prompts ➝  poetry starters

     “Perhaps, but not to those who come from away, my lady.” Petra stands, hunched over a folding table set up in the field. Her lone eye glances up to the image of Mara’s form. 

     From a transmitter nearby, the Queen’s voice rings, clear as a bell calling her Wrath home; But for their distance, Petra has another project at hand, the soft leather of a new eye patch pinned beneath her fingertips as she adjusts its fit, leather punch set aside a few inches away. “People hate ugly things. Some are better not to leave on display.” There is a small smile that curves her lips, that lilts her voice as she speaks.

Studio Ghibli Sentence Meme

“Now I have something I want to protect. It’s you.”

“I’m not afraid to die!”

“You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose.”

“They say that the best blaze brightest when circumstances are at their worst.”

“Fear and anger only make it grow faster.”

“I think I can handle it.”

“Here’s another curse for you - may all your bacon burn.”

“Don’t worry! Stay right where you are, I’m coming to get you! You’re gonna be fine, I won’t let him hurt you.”

“I need something of yours. How ‘bout your eyes?”

“We gotta get out of here! We’re gonna get in trouble!”

“You, you sabotaged me! Look! Look at what you’ve done to my hair! Look!”

“No more killing. It has to stop!”

“You sound ghastly, like some 90-year-old woman.”

“Guys, don’t take that food! We’re gonna get in trouble!”

“Fight ‘em! C’mon!”

“Smile so we can make a good impression.”

“We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it’s not easy”

“I finally get a bouquet and it’s a goodbye present. That’s depressing.”

“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.”

“Sorry, it looks like you’re involved.”

“Oh, my baby! Are you all right? Are you emotionally traumatized?”

“Now I’m trying to look inside myself and find out how I did it.”

“Leave before it gets dark.”

“Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can’t remember.”

“Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.”

“It’s all so familiar yet I know I’ve never been here before. I feel so at home.”

“Now I’m trying to look inside myself and find out how I did it.”

“I suggest you surrender. There is no ship coming to rescue you.”

“I had no idea that my rage could drive me to kill.”

“These days, there are angry ghosts all around us - dead from wars, sickness, starvation - and nobody cares.” 

“A heart’s a heavy burden.”

“Please! You must stop!”

“Well, well, well… hello kitty.” “You can’t be busy - you’re five!”

“So you say you’re under a curse? So what? So’s the whole damn world.”

“ I have really had enough of your incredible stupidity.”

“Lamebrain! They made an escape! Now step on it!”

“I didn’t want them to kill you.”

“It’s fun to move to a new place. It’s an adventure.”

“Welcome the rich man, he’s hard for you to miss. His butt keeps getting bigger, so there’s plenty there to kiss!”

“You shouldn’t be here! Get out!”

“He said Mom was ugly, now go get him!”

“Kill him and you’ll be famous.”

“I’ve seen him do this once before when a girl dumped him.”

“S/He’s alive. There goes that dream.”

“That was the night I died.”

“I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.”

“You don’t remember your name?”

“Don’t be afraid, I just want to help you.”

“Poor kids. I’ll really miss them.”

“I don’t fight for honor. I fight for a paycheck.”

“ No, No, No! Don’t do this! Help! Help! Crazy lady with the shovel!”

“She was once quite beautiful, so I decided to pursue her, then I realized she wasn’t, so then, as usual, I ran away.”

“You’re in love. Don’t deny it, you’ve been sighing all day”

“She never woke up again.”

“You blubber heads! I’m not runnin’ a luxury cruise! Now get to work!”

“Why does everything that’s good for you have to taste so bad?”

“Whatever you don’t want me to clean, better hide it now!”

“This is our little secret. You tell anyone and I’ll rip your mouth off.”

“I give up. I see no point in living if I can’t be beautiful.”

“If I lose my magic, that means I’ve lost absolutely everything.”

“ It’s… you’re scaring me. I have this weird feeling you’re going to leave. ”

“There’s a demon inside you.”

“Don’t get alarmed but I’m being followed. Act normal.”

“Don’t worry, I’ve got four-wheel drive.”

“This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It’s eating me alive, and very soon it will kill me!”

“Smooth. Very smooth. You definitely know how to make a good first impression.”

“Everyone fears their own mortality.”

“Play with me or I’ll break your arm!”

“I gotta get out of this place. Someday I’m getting on that train.”

“Wait give us a minute! This is clearly harassment.”

“Why do fireflies have to die so soon?”

“There you are, sweetheart. Sorry I’m late. I was looking everywhere for you.” 

“When you’re going to kill a god, let someone else do your dirty work.”

“Why did you stop me from killing her?”

“When I saw you, I just wanted to find a way to protect you.” 

“One thing you can always count on is that hearts change.”

“Tell me while you’re still alive!”

“This is a tomb for the both of us.”

“If nobody comes in, I’m gonna have to eat pancakes forever and be fat, fat, fat! And what am I supposed to do about that?”

“Even if you were a woman, you’d still be an idiot!”

“What do you say we give ‘em a little demonstration of how fast we can run, huh?”

“HAM!”

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@queenswrxth - continued from here

“One would think that a battle-hungry people like the Guardians would care little about such things,” Mara says, tucking her hand under her chin as she watches Petra through the vidcom. This is as close as they can get to one another most days, what with Petra busy at the front of the Dreaming City, and Mara working on her own plans, away from the fray. “But then again… I have seen our own people wince at scars that are less… palatable than others.”

She sits back in her throne, drawing her computer a little closer as she does so, so that her face is not out of frame. “How is field work treating you?” she asks. She can afford a bit of personal chatter, seeing as they are largely alone for now. Petra’s Corsairs are out patrolling, and she has not seen any Guardians about, at least, not from what little of Petra’s station that she can see. “It may not be the best place to be back on the front, but I know you have been itching to be back out there.”

     “Guardians do not know war like you or I do, my lady, and this scar is far from palatable.” Petra dips her head a bit as she lifts the patch to her face, positioning it over her eye and fitting it to place. “We have only one life. They die so very often I think they have forgotten the meaning of scars; I have met very few that live long enough to form any to begin with.”

     Petra lifts her sidearm, and checks its scope with the new patch. Everything is still aligned, nothing seems off, and she sets it down on the table before her as she looks to Mara with a small hint of a smile curling her lips. “It scratches the itch- Just as it did with the wolves,” she admits, her attention devoted solely to Mara now. “I would prefer a more direct approach, but I will continue as you will, my lady. I know this is important. There are days the Scorn wander into the sights of my rifle, and I pass the time that way.”