http://ashirabe.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ashirabe.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2006-03-15 09:32 pm

[march 15] [bleach] auribus teneo lupum

Title: Auribus teneo lupum
Date/Theme: March 15 | The silent whys of such a deathlessness
Series: Bleach
Characters: Ichigo
Rating: PG
Notes: Thought the 15th would be an appropriate day for the character. Title is a latin phrase that means “I had a wolf by the ears,” which indicates that one is in a dangerous situation where both holding on and letting go could be deadly. 105 words.


He lies panting – no, trying to get up – no, spiraling into unconsciousness. He’s falling backwards now; his eyes are bleeding now. Through the haze he can barely see the scarlet puddle drowning her pale face, and he thinks that he cannot let himself fail, he cannot let him get out, he cannot let himself—

But then he realizes he’s not the center of his world anymore, that he never was, that his sun was taken long ago and orbit lost and now he’s adopted another one and he can’t, he just can’t lose his new tether to reality.

His eyes stop bleeding; he’s charging now.