Requim (Open)

[Zhu Jian (Malarky)]

Zhu Jian’s face was heavy. His heart strewn into distress. He had killed Mei Xin. Her dead mutilated, decapitated body laid before him on a small hill. The sun was setting; it gave off a dark, deep red color. It brought sorrow that filled his heart. He was sad. He had spent many years with her. Fighting beside her, sleeping beside her, in so much trouble beside each other. It was all undone in a matter of days.

His mind wandered to her betrayal. Alerting the guards, preparing them for the attack. For her lying to his face and trying to fight against him. How he brutally mutilated her before murdering her. In his mind he was sick, to other’s he was messed up. His own men grew wary of what he might do, but Yu Leng has gotten closer. He understands what his lord did what he did wasn’t right, but needed to be done. Zhu Jian hoped he wouldn’t have to do it again.

He looked sadly at Mei Xin’s now dead body, laying next to a large hole. Her spear and sword lay next to her. He rolled her body into the hole and started to shovel the dirt over her body. The spear and sword was impaled in the ground as a head stone. He closed his eyes and started singing:

“So long.
We wish you well.
You told us how you weren't afraid to die.
Well then, so long.
Don't cry.
Or feel too down.
Not all martyrs see divinity.
But at least you tried.”

(This is the song the lyrics are from and sort of the basis of this post.)

[Sun Qing Liang]

Gong walked out into a very nice pasture, but not with the intention of relaxing. The chains of confinement have bounded Gong to Liang for years to come. Now Gong had seriously lost her target. She growled in disappointment, but she wondered why she kept a close eye on her. After all Gong tried to end Liang's life that day, but she saw the fear in her eyes and saw a scared little girl. It reminded her of her own little sister that got everything she had before Gong's little sister was born.

She walked around aimlessly for a bit until she spotted a man ontop of a small hill with a darkened figure on the ground. She tried to get a closer look as she swiftly moved behind the trees. The wind blew and she took the opportunity to get close enough. The figure cleared up and appeared to be the body of a woman. A dead woman at that. " How many weirdos are in this world?" She said to herself. She walke towards the man as he rolled the body into the tomb. She sighed as he mistreated her in the burial." Let me guess. Grave robber....or Digger?" She said aloud. She unlatched her swords in anticipation for this man to try to kill any witnesses to his crimes. She listened to this man's prayer for the dead. " So sincere for a man of dark auras." She whispered under her breath. She waited in preparation for anything.

[Zhu Jian (Malarky)]

Zhu Jian heard someone approach and a woman's voice call out behind him. His face drew in a grim smile, "I am digging the grave of one of my closest friends. The one that I murdered." He said solemnly. His heart wasn't in the mood for talking right now. His mind was set on her and the memories. He once again began humming a soft sorrowful tune.

His mind became consumed with darkness. He knew the women was wary, but he still kept throwing dirt on her body. Never stopping. Without faltering he asked her, "You seem to be looking for something. May I ask your name?" Zhu Jian asked quietly. He didn't really care much for the stranger, he has yet to even see her, but he didn't care. It was more he wanted something else on his mind.