Dante "Inferno" Zaragoza - Death'll find you... (xolotl) wrote in repose,
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Dante's silently sobbing when this one leaves, her face covered in tears before the memory even ends. This isn't like the striking pain, the fire and panic inside her skull that the last one brought out of her own memories mixing with the fleeting feelings of someone else's... This one's a different thing. A different sort of pain and fear.
Hands shake as they raise to try to feel something, to grasp anything, to remind herself that this is the real world and she's here and alive and, and...
Papa
Tears stream down her face and she tries to think, tries to speak but her jaw shakes and words choke out in her throat. Where that thought prior was going all alone is lost in the shuffle, folded and mixed into every other piece that feels wrong with her insides right now because that's not quite right, that's not quite the full truth of why this scares or hurts or, or... Both. It's both.
The feeling of slowly fading out, that feeling of loss and losing at the same time it makes Dante fold in on herself, face falling into her hands as the sobs come with more force. Enough force to shake her body and leave it shaking as she sobs. White-hot fear. A light at the end of the tunnel of dark.
The fear of what could happen to her father if she were to ever misstep, the knowledge that even if she doesn't misstep she'll still suffer this same loss someday, someday and she doesn't know when or how or why but... But Hector... Will pass and it will destroy her.
But there's that losing too, that loss of light that... The pulling feeling, that sensation of leaving the physical that's so familiar and it's not just her technopathy, it's not just the powers, it's not just her father, it's not just the feeling of the flame fading out and leaving without leaving...
It's just not...
It's just a night, it's just a memory. A memory that's almost like another night, like another memory, almost ten years ago... Ten years ago...
'You can feel the life leave... the candle snuffing out'.