Their words had felt so real, like everything they said was true and he just knew it somewhere deep in his heart. He could fight back, he could be his own person, they wouldn't leave him behind. He'd shifted, trying to get closer to them somehow, even as his own bound limbs held him back. He had to stop this. He had to try.
And then the Rose Queen speaks, touching him, and he can feel all of that threatening to slip through his fingers. It's like a hand around his heart, pulling him back from that promise of hope and light, doing everything it can to smother his will in its grasp. He makes a choking sound as he tries to fight it, and all the while he can feel the extension of his body growing and changing.
The crystal vines around them come to life, beginning to glow with a familiar frozen heat. The energy off of them floods from the Blue Rose and through his body and mind, drowning everything else out as its desire to grow and survive overtakes everything else.
But yet, Steven doesn't feel himself disappear completely - not like before. As much as it hurts, he's still there, and he knows this can't happen. He can't let it. Please.
'Please,' he begs the entity in his head, pushing his emotion, his desire against its own. 'We don't have to do this. We don't have to listen to her. You don't have to hurt people anymore...!'
Steven cries out, in frustration and in pain, but he doesn't let it stop him. He tears against his hands and wings with all of his strength, uprooting lengths of finger and pulling until the strands of crystal shatter.
Around them, the energy building in the crystal roses begins to flicker and fade.
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Their words had felt so real, like everything they said was true and he just knew it somewhere deep in his heart. He could fight back, he could be his own person, they wouldn't leave him behind. He'd shifted, trying to get closer to them somehow, even as his own bound limbs held him back. He had to stop this. He had to try.
And then the Rose Queen speaks, touching him, and he can feel all of that threatening to slip through his fingers. It's like a hand around his heart, pulling him back from that promise of hope and light, doing everything it can to smother his will in its grasp. He makes a choking sound as he tries to fight it, and all the while he can feel the extension of his body growing and changing.
The crystal vines around them come to life, beginning to glow with a familiar frozen heat. The energy off of them floods from the Blue Rose and through his body and mind, drowning everything else out as its desire to grow and survive overtakes everything else.
But yet, Steven doesn't feel himself disappear completely - not like before. As much as it hurts, he's still there, and he knows this can't happen. He can't let it. Please.
'Please,' he begs the entity in his head, pushing his emotion, his desire against its own. 'We don't have to do this. We don't have to listen to her. You don't have to hurt people anymore...!'
Steven cries out, in frustration and in pain, but he doesn't let it stop him. He tears against his hands and wings with all of his strength, uprooting lengths of finger and pulling until the strands of crystal shatter.
Around them, the energy building in the crystal roses begins to flicker and fade.