Warning: not especially pleasant

"Isn't this what you wanted?"

His voice echoed in the back of his skull as he kissed Brenon, his fingers digging furrows in the cold skin. Hard and vicious and deep, as he delved for the last vestiges of warmth in his friend's body with his tongue, with his hands. It was so cold, and he was so still.
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It was a dark world.

The sky was never so much gray as it was colorless, devoid of hue even when the sun was shining. And when the sun was shining, it never even managed a proper shine- it hung in the colorless sky like a coin on a string, left in the rain. It's light was tarnished, desolate.

It was a cold world.

The cities were as colorless as the sky, trapped in a perpetual state of late autumn, filled with bare trees and damp, biting winds. Spring was a legend, and summer nothing more than a myth. All there was was autumn, and the promise of winter on the horizon, forever.

It was a dead world.

Corpses filled the streets, and the living hid beneath the gutters, waiting for the reapers. Each day grew colder, darker, and more and more of them left their dilapidated dwellings to join the dead in the streets.

Stella smoothed out her skirt and crossed her legs at the ankles, waiting patiently for the bus. Dead leaves swirled, dancing like marionettes around her feet in the cold, cold wind.
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There's something oddly touching about the way Theron violates his best friend's corpse...*cough* I'm so going to end up tearing my eyes out if I ever manage to get to that scene. Theron is just so full of anger by that point- he's angry at the world in general, but angry at Brenon in particular for giving up. He sees it as a betrayal; this doesn't excuse what he does (and never mind the details, really), particularly since he does it again to Mihonil later, when he's thinking perfectly clearly.

I think I'm just going to blame Theron's character on the Book of Vile Darkness and have done with it.

The other bit is Stella's world, if it were as dramatic and pretentious as I feel like making it. She's blind and wears skirts with ponchos and bitch boots, and Solneki is afraid of her. Since Solneki isn't afraid of anything, this is rather impressive on her part.