descendwings
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“You disappeared.”
“I had no choice.”
“You could have called.”
“I was scared.”
“Of fucking what?”
Every sentence felt like peeling open an old wound. Every word tasted like memory. Lute’s voice wavered on a line she normally would’ve delivered flawlessly:
“..I never stopped thinking about you.”
For a heartbeat, the room stopped breathing. Vaggi’s throat tightened before she forced out her reply:
“That makes one of us.”
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Her first descent was not graceful. The air pulled at the ragged edges of her, and every feather that caught wind seared in pain she was sure she shouldn't be able to feel. She dove into a crowd, people gathered in some kind of group brawl, and the sinners scattered like prey at a predator's approach. Their terror was sweet as honey, she had been taught to think— and Lute let herself enjoy it for just a heartbeat. Enjoy it like medicine, like a prescription she hadn’t gotten filled since she last dug her teeth into something living. Until a fist full of rusted, stained chains snapped across her forearm, and an improvised iron bar sang a note against her thigh.
It hurt. She tasted copper and tin and the bright, foreign sting of real violence. Her talons closed on an arm that tried to reach for the bar once again; the sinner's skin was too soft, too breakable— human, and for the first time since the world had tilted, Lute understood that this place hurt in more than one way.
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A fallen angel wakes up on a rooftop in hell, a twisted image of what she once was. Everything changes. -
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Husk didn’t reach for her. He crouched beside her instead, close enough for her to know he was there. “He’s gone,” he said quietly. “You’re safe.”
She nodded without looking up. “I hate this,” she whispered. “I hate that I still—” Her voice broke. “—react like that.”
“Yeah,” Husk said after a pause. “That kinda thing sticks. Doesn’t mean you’re weak.”---
Or: Lute has a rough morning, a rough shift, and an okay night.
A snippet from my personal Fallen Angel Lute AU where she takes a role as a Husk’s assistant at the bar.