Today's word count if brought to you by Brutal's first journal entry. Please remember that anything posted here may not wind up as Guardian Order canon, especially during my reintroduction to writerdom. But, having a place to post this stuff gives my brain the sense of accomplishing the task, which I need to drive ever forward. So without further ado...
This is stupid. I don’t even know why I let them
talk me into writing in this ridiculous thing. It’s got a unicorn on the cover for
fuck’s sake. Probably Vain’s idea. He loves screwing with everybody, especially
me, since he can’t beat me in a fight. That male causes more drama than those
crazy ass reality show housewives. Hail’s death seems to have made him worse.
Hell, his death has made everyone worse, really. Stone has been drinking
himself into a coma every night. Raze has been blowing up the gardens with his
not-so-spontaneous combustions. Lanea yelled at me for two hours last week
about how nothing will ever grow there again. Didn’t miss the irony that if Hail
were here, he could fix it. Havoc has voiced objections on bringing his younger
brother into the Order. I told him it wasn’t his call to make. In the history
of our people, only a handful of candidates have ever turned down the honor of
the Sacrifice, so we’ll see what Savage is made of soon enough. Stark is the
only one acting normal, but he doesn’t really have a choice I guess. Every once
in a while, though, I catch a glimpse of cloudiness in his eyes. It’s always
gone with the next blink, but I know it was there. It worries me that the Order
can be shaken up like that. Something else has me worried, too. A couple of
weeks before Hail died, he told me I would fall, but not to fight it. What the
fuck? First of all, I CAN’T fall, thank you Sacrifice. Second, even if I could
be knocked down, I would NEVER give up. Third, when the hell did he start with
the prophetic vision shit? I asked Stone to look into it, but he didn’t see
anything. Stone did say he saw us fighting a lot more drones, but that’s not
surprising. We’re all itching for some retribution for Hail. It feels like
something big is on the horizon, though.
So maybe this wasn’t so bad. I can deal with
putting a few words on a piece of paper every now and then. But, I am so gonna
toss some extra power in my punches the next time I spar with Vain.