The shiv flew on its own. It met a tendon, a piece of flesh, skin and muscles and bones. Willow’s arm stuck out from the gaps in the bannister like a broken tendril of something bigger. She cut, and again, she coughed.

Coughing was the rhythm and she was moving on the beat.

The gun broke under her weight. As if she were heavy. As if she were strong enough to break it. It felt like an insult, a taunt. A reminder that she had failed at something else again. It broke, and strangely, she felt something change in her body. Or maybe it was just the glass shards in her lungs....

Their flesh gnashed together like teeth in a hasty kiss. Willow almost forgot where her body started and where Garnet’s ended. For a moment, there was peace as the knife nicked at Garnet. A peace, like most on the island, that wouldn’t last. Willow noticed that something was wrong when Garnet’s eyes...

The shank broke inside of Garnet’s body. Willow, futilely, tried to dig it for it. When she realized her nail could only burrow so deeply into the flesh, and the only result she got was deep cuts in her fingers, she gave up. Her decision was only reaffirmed when Garnet’s fist flew straight to the si...

The stars in the night sky materialized inside of her. Her eyes were filled with them, with thousands of bursts of black and gray and purple filling her vision. The candle was in her hand as it melted through the wax. The heat forced Willow's eyes to open, making her stare down at the gun once again...

"No." The word came out before she had any control. "I- You- You're not..." She didn't want to get shot like a pig. Willow didn't want that. She had made that very vocal to herself and to others. The idea of being punctured by thousands of tiny metal pieces through her lungs made...

"Because the road to hell is paved with good intentions, god fucking dammit! "Get a fucking clue. "Do you really think I want that? Do you really fucking think I don't want to be selfish for once and just go the fuck home and be left alone by everything and everyone?" There were ...

"I'm not- I don't- I- "I don't fucking lie. I'm not fucking lying." Her fingers dug in the wax. She could feel the heat dripping onto her. "This? "This is your lifeline. "Just fucking t-take it. "It's free." The candle was so puny in her hand. "Don't- don...

"Easy for me to set myself on fire." She deadpans in the moment of silence after Garnet's word, before even thinking. She stares for another second before pulling the candle. "And then." She hissed a breath through her teeth. She felt small. She was. She was so small underneath t...

Willow also looked away. The sky was the color of an ugly bruise. The moon was white, almost yellow in the distance. She wondered if it was the same moon from back home. It had to be, but everything felt different. The weird buzzing in the air and the incessant loop that Willow had seen and witnesse...

He has eyes and he’s not scared to use them

i made three of these memes

Hide-and-seek? Maybe Garnet was seeing through her plan, maybe she had been clumsy when she covered her tracks in the mansion. She stopped looking at Garnet, instead focusing at the candle. She reminded herself where she put the accelerant. It was possible it would come into play earlier than she th...

Pointless and fucked. It was a fitting description of the situation. It was pointless and it was fucked , and Willow was simply trying to stay above the murky water on her tippy toes. She was forgetting where her body started and where the world ended, her brain foggy and soggy as it tried to simult...

The unspoken question lay between them. They were about a foot apart, enough so that Willow could reach out with her hand if she wanted to. Instead, she raised her knees to her chin. She laid her head there, finally looking away from Garnet. The timeline was still perfect. She was still in control. ...