Post by Flame on Jul 17, 2020 23:17:09 GMT -5
Yes, so what? Why not? After all the attacks, all the haranguing comments, after it all why not let free. Why stress over it anymore. Ori still screamed amidst these thoughts, because the pain was still there. The pressure that had built up was not free yet, and lava was still boiling into existance within her. It pumped out of her arm in thick flows still. And then at times in spurts. The pain was lasting as she felt the tears in her from which the lava was pouring out pulling themselves open.
But for the moment the pain had leveled off. And through it, her screaming stopped for a moment. The pain didn't subside but it normalized. Her feet came beneath her as she stood upon her two feet standing up in an almost rag-dollish manner. Neck lolled about as she cracked a deranged smile. Anger swirled about her psyche, all of it repressed now for years. Injustice, slights, and the like boiled to the fore of her mind. The arm not freely flowing lava into the ground about her reached over to her shoulder allowing the lava to flow over it. Her sleeves burned away, and Ori began to laugh.
The strange unrecognizable cackle of someone who was breaking. Cracking at the edges and straight down the middle as well. And then it silenced itself. For the moment the lava pouring out of her arm stymied itself a bit so only streams slinked down the arm rather than rivers. She spoke, to no one in particular. "This is what you want right?" Her eyes stared hollowly ahead of her latching onto no one in particular.
"It is how I am seen. Then so be it."
Her voice was cold like ice. Unthinking, unfeeling, how many had left her. Thrown her out, she'd tried to keep them safe, tried to keep her powers from ruining more lives. But the world was against her, hunted, feared, well maybe they should have a taste of how they saw her. See the reality that she held back from them. "See it. Feel it. The cruelty of my power."
Ori bent down her hands facing towards the ground. Two vents formed at her palms as she took a breath. "Flow now and burn it all down." At once lava began to flow out of her arms like from faucets. It poured first splashing onto the ground atop a cooling layer of lava that had pooled about her. But then as it continued to come and come, it began to spread, moving away from Ori constantly it formed a continuously larger lake about her. It could not cool fast enough and instead just grew a lake of lava about her threatening to engulf the whole street and more.