Dramaturgy

[Shilukk]

Fire flies.
Scouring the air.
Wings pour from my back.
My body aflame.


I watch you rip through the air before my eyes. One of your little rifts I never understood.
I watch you rip through the air before me.
And get impaled on chains of metal.
Your chest is a mess. You're bleeding out. Fast. I shake. I hesitate. I would have been dead.
Did you die for me?
Words catch in my throat. I can't do anything for you. Crying over you would do nothing. I have to kill the thing that-

He stabs it through the heart before I can even turn around. He never loses. I stand between him and you.


Wings pour from my back.
My body aflame.


The sound makes me sick. For once in my life, I falter.
Your chest is a mess. You're bleeding out. Fast.
I shake. I hesitate. I would have been dead.
Did you die for me?
Words catch in my throat.
I stare, despondently, in shock.
I don't know what to do.
I look back at the thing, that did it. Surely, I want to kill it.

He stabs it through the heart before I can even turn around. He never loses. I stand between him and you.


Wings pour from my back.
My body aflame.


Who am I kidding?

I can't protect you.

I can't protect anything.

To tell you as you hold me that I'll kill anybody who hurts you;

That I'll defend you until it kills me;

And to be the one that needed to be saved.

Because I lack the compassion to save you instead.

Your blood splatters across my cheek. The prosthetic eye you made for me stares, in horror. You fly over my head. I thought it cut you in half.

You're bleeding out. Fast.

I shake.

I hesitate.

I would have been dead.

Did you

die

For me?

Words catch in my throat.

I'm too stupid to do anything for you.

I know I won't cry.

I turn around to die to the thing that killed you, that I need not live with the shame.

Fire flies.

Scouring the air.

Wings pour from my back.

My body aflame.

I stand, silent. My heart stops beating.

I want to help you.

I know I can't.

I want to cry.

I know I won't.

I want to kneel over you, and hold you while you're dying.

But I can't find the strength to move.

I know I'm not strong enough.

I know I never will be.

Wings pour from my back.

My body aflame.

And I wish I could protect you.