THE FALLACY

[Gaja 1312]

 

Spoiler     ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐     The Knight watched the Sun fall from the skies and bleed out on the horizon before the night’s gloom settled. His thoughts spiralled, endlessly.    Contentment would never come, and the loathing ensued. In desperation, he sat in waiting for a friend of his to come, so that he might seek solace.   Her arrival brought more than just her presence. Opportunity, and release. He grasped for it in the wretched hope that he might die.   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   He gazed up at the sky for hours that day. The winged form of Nohr circled overhead endlessly. He could not turn his head down, towards all the other passersby and stunned observers.   She had come for him, to duel him so that she might prove a deeper truth which he rejected endlessly. He would know his worth by the end of the day.   And as the others all departed, none were left but the pair and a returning Deia, who wished to see the undefeated Knight duel.    And the drake descended, and Walach drew his black blade and horrid shield wrought of hellish metals.   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   Nohr had seen Walach at his worst. She had seen him come apart, and lose himself. But she had not seen the man as he was now.   An overwhelming presence, suffocating all around him. A dreadful sensation enveloped her as her draconic heart churned rapidly, causing her veins to boil and steam to escape from her nostrils and eyes.   But it was not fear, it was ᴠɪʟᴇ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄ. A disgusting intrusion upon her very being, which drowned her in blinding disgust and rage. The Knight would pay.   In an instant, Walach found himself engulfed in a torrent of dragonfire, availed only by that wicked shield. Still he pressed forth, through the fire, until he was close enough.   Nohr tried desperately to remove the terrible thing from his arm. Walach, however, aggressively approached, making it almost impossible for Nohr to succeed. Was he truly so horribly deluded to think he could trade blows with a nephilim?   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   He dove beneath her front leg and pushed against her scales with the infernal shield, the rage within the drake coming to boil over at the touch of that chilling material.   Far stronger was she, and he found himself pressed against the ground by the beast’s weight. Fire spared his face only by the thinnest shreds of mercy within her.   The moment he had been waiting for arrived, and he could finally strike. A savage blow ripped through her scales, exposing the raw flesh beneath.   An attempt to disarm him failed, and he pierced the flesh and drew her blood. Another victory, and Walach remained undefeated.   He wouldn't leave Nohr unscathed, however. Walach’s helmet was ripped from his head, and a colossal talon relentlessly etched into the Knight's face. This gift, upon this very day, would be the most prominent scar, serving as a lasting reminder of the woman he battled.   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   “Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪꜱ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ɪɴꜱɪᴅᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪꜱ ᴡᴏʀᴛʜ ᴛᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴘʀɪᴅᴇ ɪɴ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴀɴ ʀᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴏᴜᴛ, ᴀɴᴅ ɢʀᴀꜱᴘ…” Her words echoed in his mind for months, and the fallacy of thoughts sunk in.   “Vɪᴄᴛᴏʀʏ.”   ◑ ━━━━━ ⊰✦⊱ ━━━━━ ◐   Spoiler Painting 1: When the West with Evening Glows by Joseph Farquharson, 1901 Painting 2: Winter Landscape in Dawn Light by Arvid Mauritz Lindström Painting 3: Bonfire Painting by Aleksei Adlexe Panfilov, 2020 Painting 4: Cyclone by Franco Salas Borquez, 2023 Painting 5: Entity IV by Malgorzata Maj, 2024 Thank you to @ibleesian for the awesome duel, Thank you to @Pallodiumfor formatting like a hero, Thank you to @M1919for the mouth kissing and last night (and I guess for editing a little bit maybe also.)

 

Edited January 31, 2025 by Gaja
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