[ The thing that is in Harrow's body will reach the Tomb. Kiriona isn't concerned about that. Harrow's body will survive, and so will Harrow, and then she will leave with her ice lolly bimbo, and Kiriona will be left alone again.
She doesn't want to think about it. She no longer wants to remember. As if responding to her will, the memory shrinks, until it is just the rocks, and the low lantern light, and Ortus, and Kiriona.
Kiriona is not alone right now. She is being held. Once upon a time, there were two hundred other children, and they held her too. They died for Harrowhark, and Kiriona couldn't even follow them. She only - ]
I died for nothing.
[ There it is. The secret that is buried under the rock that must not be rolled away. A confession, building over seven months of living death and nine months of being a ghost in a skull. Crux cannot give her what she wants, and Harrow won't. All that leaves is this.
This. She has Ortus, and he promises to stay. ]
Don't leave. [ She is four years old again, and learning that all the adults hate her, and begging for them to love her anyway. Stay. ] Please.
cw: child death, child abuse
She doesn't want to think about it. She no longer wants to remember. As if responding to her will, the memory shrinks, until it is just the rocks, and the low lantern light, and Ortus, and Kiriona.
Kiriona is not alone right now. She is being held. Once upon a time, there were two hundred other children, and they held her too. They died for Harrowhark, and Kiriona couldn't even follow them. She only - ]
I died for nothing.
[ There it is. The secret that is buried under the rock that must not be rolled away. A confession, building over seven months of living death and nine months of being a ghost in a skull. Crux cannot give her what she wants, and Harrow won't. All that leaves is this.
This. She has Ortus, and he promises to stay. ]
Don't leave. [ She is four years old again, and learning that all the adults hate her, and begging for them to love her anyway. Stay. ] Please.