His hand shook.
The twitching was not new, years it had been now. Years of shaking and convulsions that racked his form. How his body would crumple to the ground, head hitting the floorboards of the home that felt more akin to a prison most days. Ythur and Ekythkeezh did their best to help- of course they did, but neither knew what was going on with him. How could they? So he shook, and sobbed.
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His hand shook.
The missive in his grip had been read one too many times to count, eyes always landing on what Elijah had done to him. How that memory he was told was a simple mistake from the universe, one where alternatives became mixed, was not truthfully that. How the slap of the hand against his cheek had been real, how the porcelain mask had been shoved onto his face had been true. How close he had been to death as a child, it was all reality. He knew not how to cope with the history he now knew besides sobbing into the arms of Sisu.
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His hand shook.
The smell of death reeked. There was no calm, no peace in this wretched church. How the chorus of laughter echoed around him only furthered his fear. He heard the words through ears focused not on speeches but on tear drops. The sight of the world, dead and baren. The parchedness of his throat, the hunger in his stomach. It had all been too real, and he had tried his hardest to forget it all through the listening to something else. He had been hyper focusing upon the fall of tear drops from his eyes to the ground. Tiva heard it, though.
"As for you. . . You fail to impress me. . ."
He made up his mind then he would not beg.
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His hand did not shake.
They would find the corpse of a dark elf in the night, some distant travelers. His flesh and muscles ripped apart, gored, and flayed. Even his bones had been torn out from his body. Only identifiable by the glasses he wore, for everything else that made Tiva the man he was had been torn away. The empty skull sitting on top the pile looked almost mocking. Looted as it was, what little remained would be given to his parents. He at least had a cloth wrapped around him when handed off, so their final image of their son would not be one so profanely wrong.