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ZANE . house venture ([personal profile] godsays) wrote2013-08-31 09:00 pm

23rd metal . CTS spam

[ It's after Cassel's announcement that Zane can be found in the CTS.

The scene is medieval - or, ancient, anyway. Armor, swords, horses. A battle. As the door out of the CTS closes behind him, they surround him, weapons braced. He blinks back anguished emotion, and tosses back a vial of metals, and touches steel, pewter.

He launches into the air, and the fight begins.

There are hundreds of them, and only one of him: and yet. He slaughters them. He uses the metal they carry to Push and Pull himself; he is always faster, always stronger, and he is the utter picture of grace.

He kills them all.

And when they are dead, the bright green hill of a battlefield strewn with corpses, he goes into the forest. Braces himself against one tree and flings metal at another, a thud-thud of swords, knives, shields whipping and burying themselves into the bark. He Pushes, and Pushes, until finally the tree splinters and collapses, crashing slowly and mightily into the ground.

He keeps destroying the trees, over and over, until someone interrupts - or another army shows up. ]
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-01 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Gemmel, my trainer, used to say 'You're a Mistborn and you kill.' But he was an old lunatic. Looking back, I think he might have had a spike. [he shrugs.]

Yes, I wonder. I'm good at it because he pushed me and I wanted it. For a time, it replaced something I lost.
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
There is more than killing.

[He shakes his head.] I found something else to fill that void but nothing can replace what I lost.
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-02 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's time you learned?

You can reform yourself into anything you want now, Zane.
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-02 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Limits are there to be broken.

[He stands up and pulls one of his daggers out of a fallen soldier's neck.] But I understand the feeling. More than you realize.
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-02 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
No one wants to be left behind. I didn't.

[He cleans his blade on his Mistcloak.]
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-02 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you can. You're just not ready yet.

[he glances back] Even if he has, you're not abandoned. Not here.
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-02 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that and it's going to hurt. For a very long time.

My wife is dead, Zane. He's coming back. She's not and there is nothing I can do about it. Don't throw this away by thinking you've lost something you've always had.

[He drops a coin, CTS starts to change near him, sensing difference in him. He Pushes into the air into newly materialized spires. ]
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[personal profile] onlysurvivor 2013-09-03 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[He ascends a still forming tower.] You mourn for someone who is not gone.

[He crests the tower, pauses on its tip for a half second, sighs and glances back.]

You're a child wallowing in his own despair.