basically just me being mean to spike
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Spike hadn’t felt it the first time she had died, too high on the joy of Dru’s fangs, the dizziness of exsanguination. She had fallen asleep in Dru’s arms, and had woken up in them, too. All around, the experience was less horror than bliss.
But getting her soul back felt like how she imagined dying should have. It slammed into her body, burning so brightly she couldn’t hold back a cry as it seared through her, settling inside her bones in a way it hadn’t in over a hundred years, making a too-big space for itself within her. She didn’t recall falling, but she was aware of the ground under her hands and knees as she shuddered through the aftershocks of its return, nearly choking on the sensation of all the lives inside her body.
When the physical pain stopped, the screaming began. A hundred thousand screams over the years, people she’d killed, people she’d tortured, blood she’d bathed in. It was paralyzing, horrifying, to feel it all like a bruise being pressed on, when before she had only cared about it in the abstract.
The mouth of the cave was right there, and it was bright outside. God, the light. The light could help.
She dragged herself towards it, and went mad before she touched the sun.
Series
- Part 4 of they will know me by my teeth.