THOSE TWIN SOULS

[Gaja 1311]

 

 

[♫]

 

 

 

 

 

 

A crimson knight roved the roads, under cover of darkness. Twilight was his cloak, and so he stalked the lands as he once did. Something within his mind had torn, recently. That shred of sanity soiled, he found himself compelled to seek death. But that sweet release would find him not, the man’s doom rejected utterly by destiny itself.

 

A few people he’d stopped, by now. He levied odd questions at them, of right and wrong; good and evil; redemption and finality. He cared not what they thought, in truth–Walach’s mind was already made up. But still he could not resist that compulsion, for he knew why he had done this.

 

 

 

 

   Death.

Walach sought a warrior’s death, then. Some shrill screaming in his head had grown louder over the past years, that his existence was unwelcome and that he had to remedy it in the only way he knew how: Duelling.

 

Yet those two souls that always vied for control struggled to take hold. The Knight, seeking death, would drag his withered form across the lands. The Man, seeking meaning, would levy questions instead of challenges.

 

No hunters came, no answers were found–death denied and emptiness grown, Walach returned. Things had shifted within him once more, only for the worse. A horrid gnawing settled itself inside his mind, finding little cause to stop now.

 

All he could do now was soldier on.

 

 

 

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Art I used:

Painting 1 ( https://x.com/revol4357 )
Painting 2 ( https://x.com/juice_bruns/ )
Painting 3 ( https://x.com/stopstare )

 

Edited January 13, 2025 by Gaja
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