| Ficbit Challenge 5
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| He was only seventeen, the first time it happened. Seventeen and tall
but still thin, his hands and feet too large for the rest of him. When
the questing touch brushed feather-light against his mental shields Gaignun
was distracted, sitting at a public UMN terminal and chasing down a thought.
Automatically he lowered his shields and sent his greeting: (rubedo) (what
is it?) (can it)
(nigredo) Albedo's mental 'voice' was a tittering purr. It slid into Gaignun's open mind as smoothly as dirty silk, leaving a foul snail-trail of U-DO filth smeared across his thoughts and his name alike; Gaignun's fingers spasmed, dropping the stylus to clatter across the keypad and fall to the carpet at his feet. (awful!) he broadcast helplessly before he could clamp down on the reflexive revulsion screaming through his nerves. (awful!) (filthy!) (wrong!) and then he slammed shut the gate of his formidable mental shields, trying to force Albedo out. The contact narrowed to a faint caressing touch, but Albedo couldn't be shaken so easily, and now his laughter swirled like poison in the back of Gaignun's mind. (ahh) (nigredo) (or should I say Nigredo) (all grown up) (just like me) (what do you want) (albedo) Gaignun's upper lip slid up, baring his teeth, and he scrubbed the palms of his hands against his thighs. (what?) (can't a brother say hello to his) (kin?) (no), Gaignun thought, and "No," he said aloud, almost spat. The terminal operator looked up questioningly, and Gaignun forced himself to be quiet. (go away) (go die) (leave me) (us) (alone) (and what if I refuse?) (I told you not to leave me alone) (and you did) (you left me) A thin thread of petulance wound through Albedo's squirming laugh. (bad) (bad brothers) (stay away) Gaignun warned, his hands in fists. (stay away from us) (!me!) (ahhh) (too little too late, Nigredo) (I already know our brother is with you) (what) (hoping to finish what you started) (STAY AWAY) (ohh?) (and what if I don't want to, hmm?) (shall I come see you?) (STAY AWAY) (and rubedo) (dear sweet rubedo) (my br)(other) (shall I come) (?see?) (him too?) (DIE), Gaignun screamed, and the glass atop the UMN screen lit up green, and Albedo abruptly fell silent in his mind. Gaignun threw up every mental shield that he could muster and sat there, trembling, utterly alone in his thoughts, befouled and unable to feel a thing. |
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