Inktober - 9 - Screech
Added 2017-10-08 19:38:51 +0000 UTCHer steps were slow. She dragged her bloodstained claws through the freshly fallen sheet of snow, walking by all of the unrecognizable masses that lined up the path out of the camp. Some didn't even look like bodies; distorted, mangled, they would be frozen in this sad state forever.
Unable to feel her feet any longer, she fell to her knees, and settled down in the cold. She couldn't feel anything at all. At last, there was silence around her; blissful silence, embracing her in its gentleness like a warm cradle... But this silence was deafening. She wanted to scream. She was now all alone, freed of her chains, but they had taken everything from her, and now all that remained, was an empty husk, with no air to even whisper...
"I... I... am free..."
Akayuki has had a rough go in life. When she was young, she was captured by a group of demon-beasts and brought to their camp, where she was first used as a slave, then later trained to be a soldier. She was basically treated like dirt all the time, and after a particularly harsh night, her mind went blank, and she murdered everyone in the camp. After that, she escaped, but the memories of her time in the camp followed her like the plague...
After I do Hailan's short comic series, I plan to explore more of Akayuki's story, so keep an eye out for that!
