Daily writing prompts based around a weekly theme.
Prompt - Aeolistic
This week's theme is unusual words starting with A, and today's prompt is aeolistic - long-winded.
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All Due Attention
Form: drabble
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Listen to him.
Axel carefully kept all outward inklings of his train of thought buried as deep as he could get them.
How does someone so monotone manage to sound so dramatic?
Posture needed to stay neutral (where 'neutral' meant 'alert slouch'). Expression needed to be as mask-like as possible.
Absolutely nothing could give away how very, very much he would prefer to be anywhere but standing, waiting, waiting while Xemnas paced slowly from one side of the chamber to the other, gesturing expansively as the sonorous sermon continued.
The last time he'd slipped, his ichor splashed across the flagstones.
I always hated the way he droned on, explaining the same thing over and over, just with different words. This is what's wrong with you, this is what's wrong with you put in simple terms because I assume you are too stupid to understand the way I said it the first time. And lastly, let me tell you what's wrong with you again, and then elaborate exactly why I hate it and why you need to change.
I always hated the way I couldn't escape, how he kept talking even after he stopped because my mind grabbed onto it, one more reason to loathe myself, and repeated it again and again. Because I had failed him. Because even though I knew I shouldn't put up with this, and even deeper inside me, I knew that this was wrong, I still blamed myself. He wouldn't abuse me if I was perfect. If I was a better girlfriend, more attractive, more attentive.... He wouldn't say these things if I wasn't so damn worthless.
And I hate how I still hear his words now. Even now when i've put him behind me, when I thought I was free, his words echo up from the grave of my past and grab me around the ankles, shackling me to my low self esteem.
But most of all, I hate how I hear his voice, his words, when you start telling me the exact. same. things.