Kharmin
Moon Pie Maven
<p><a href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_02/57a8c1a87e8cb_Danica_HorizFlip_30.jpg.35d412b9d56296c11e74266deb564659.jpg" class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image"><img data-fileid="43597" src="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2015_02/57a8c1a87e8cb_Danica_HorizFlip_30.jpg.35d412b9d56296c11e74266deb564659.jpg" class="ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed" alt=""></a></p> Danica Blaire - Lysia - Prison
Danica kept her eyes locked on the institutional grey painted ceiling above her as her cellmate muttered about making someone's lives less convenient. Danica exhaled slowly as she recalled having felt the same way years before.
The six years she had been incarcerated, with the same weekly, daily and hourly routines had taken their toll. Danica still fought to contain the fury that smoldered like banked coals deep in her spirit lest it manifest and thus give her captors the very secrets that they strove to painfully extract from her. For six years, Danica had thus far managed to contain the beast within despite all of their experimentation on her. She had found ways to remain impassive and often withdrew into herself to ignore the pain of the ministrations plied upon her.
She closed her eyes and tried to remember what it felt like to have the sun caress her face from where it radiated softly through high, white clouds against a light blue sky. Danica long since resigned herself to her captivity and over the years had lost touch with the most simplest of pleasures that many now took for granted. Danica missed walking barefoot in the lake where the mud oozed between her toes. Or, standing in the open with no walls, bars or artificial light – even in a torrential downpour, was lost to her now. Danica pined to be able to walk freely, without the constant clank and rattle of the chains and shackles that had bound her so long they had become part of her.
However, her freedom was not to be. Instead, they found her yet another cellmate as the king's men continued their incessant crack-down on any resistance. Those who weren't killed outright were crammed tightly into the penal system and usually mistreated, abused or otherwise assaulted to the entertainment of the guards and soon were forgotten by any family that they may have left behind.
Slowly, Danica opened her eyes and allowed them to once again focus on the same ceiling she had been staring at for the last six years. Solid and unmoving, the concrete slab above her mocked her as it easily held her freedom at bay.
In a slow-paced, monotone voice, she addressed her cellmate without tearing her gaze from the unrelenting ceiling above. "I'm sure the rebels would appreciate the gesture," she said.
@LotusSan - Cellmate
Danica kept her eyes locked on the institutional grey painted ceiling above her as her cellmate muttered about making someone's lives less convenient. Danica exhaled slowly as she recalled having felt the same way years before.
The six years she had been incarcerated, with the same weekly, daily and hourly routines had taken their toll. Danica still fought to contain the fury that smoldered like banked coals deep in her spirit lest it manifest and thus give her captors the very secrets that they strove to painfully extract from her. For six years, Danica had thus far managed to contain the beast within despite all of their experimentation on her. She had found ways to remain impassive and often withdrew into herself to ignore the pain of the ministrations plied upon her.
She closed her eyes and tried to remember what it felt like to have the sun caress her face from where it radiated softly through high, white clouds against a light blue sky. Danica long since resigned herself to her captivity and over the years had lost touch with the most simplest of pleasures that many now took for granted. Danica missed walking barefoot in the lake where the mud oozed between her toes. Or, standing in the open with no walls, bars or artificial light – even in a torrential downpour, was lost to her now. Danica pined to be able to walk freely, without the constant clank and rattle of the chains and shackles that had bound her so long they had become part of her.
However, her freedom was not to be. Instead, they found her yet another cellmate as the king's men continued their incessant crack-down on any resistance. Those who weren't killed outright were crammed tightly into the penal system and usually mistreated, abused or otherwise assaulted to the entertainment of the guards and soon were forgotten by any family that they may have left behind.
Slowly, Danica opened her eyes and allowed them to once again focus on the same ceiling she had been staring at for the last six years. Solid and unmoving, the concrete slab above her mocked her as it easily held her freedom at bay.
In a slow-paced, monotone voice, she addressed her cellmate without tearing her gaze from the unrelenting ceiling above. "I'm sure the rebels would appreciate the gesture," she said.
@LotusSan - Cellmate