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Life Seeps Away

Author: Mayemura Special
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-05-31 15:17:34

Her flesh fails, but her will leaves a resounding echo.

The light never reached her in this place. Not fully. Not honestly. It slithered in through cracks in the boarded windows like a reluctant guest, faint and cold, as if the sun itself could not bear to witness what she had become.

Arla-Rosa lay where she had collapsed the night before, though even “night” was a guess. Time had lost its form. Day and darkness blurred together into a single, endless void. Her wrists were still bound, the chain biting into open wounds, slick with dried blood and filth. Her face was swollen on one side where a guard’s boot had slammed into her cheek. Her stomach throbbed, a constant, merciless reminder that even in the depths of hell, life still bloomed within her.

Life she had vowed to protect. And yet, her body was failing. “I’m sorry,” she whispered, barely audible even to herself. The words scratched their way out of her cracked throat. “I tried... my loves... I tried.”

She felt her heart flutter
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