This keening soul;
From the moment her prophecy was whispered from the scratchy, other-worldly voice of the Witch Doctor, Leto had wondered what it was going to be like to drown.
She did not imagine teeth within her throat that hold her and pull her down. Neither did she imagine the tail that wraps about her limbs and holds them fast - as if she might ever have considered escape.
But Leto did imagine what the sky would look like above her as she drifted down and the waves rolled over to consume her in blue. But nothing could have prepared her for the beauty of it, the savagery. The world, the sky leaves her as rippling blue shuts like glass doors above her.
She opens her mouth to call down the stars but all that fills her lungs is water where there should be air. All above her is silver and a blue that grows richer, deeper, darker with each pull, pull, pull from Anandi’s teeth.
Then the blood comes seeping up, up from where flesh and teeth meet. Where Anandi marks her changed and different. Fate is warmer than the water that holds her. It cradles her in electricity that makes her skin sting with the energy of it.
The girls sink in silver and black and blood. They are tangled in desire and fate as the ocean churns and welcomes them deeper, deeper. There is an agony in death; a desperation that has her fighting, struggling against the might of Anandi. Ah, beautiful, sweet Anandi who brings death with a divine smile.
It is slow, this fateful turn. It is lungs too full of saltwater. They gasp and agonise and beg to be emptied and filled again with air. It is the cut of her throat as if beneath teeth that open gills along her neck and have her breathing again - breathing as if the water is air. It is the rise of hunger deep as an abyss as strong as a riptide. It has her peeling away from Anandi, rolling and twisting, slowly, slowly through the water, learning to breathe, to swim, to want as Anandi wants. It is her eyes closing and death and rebirth entwining and uniting within her.
<3 Leave this here and explore the after effects in a new thread? -
@Anandi <3| "speaks" | notes: table 2/2!! this was super fun to make
