Read to me ~ Xingyun

The Balladeers Lament

Big Tw// death

Scaramouche POV:

Running.

I had been running for so, so long.

The police were still behind me..

I think.

I dont know.

I'm to scared to turn around.

They were chasing me.

They wanted my life.

I let that stupid kid live. Why?

Why did I do that?

He must've been the one to tell the police about me and now...

They found me.

I know that if they catch me, they are going to kill me, and if they don't...

The fatui will.

I let the kid go.

The police are on my tail.

And I failed a mission for the fatui.

That was good money for them.

And I let it go.

Now, they are going to kill me.

I'll be dead in the next 48 hours, I know it.

So why am I still running?

It doesn't matter I'll die either way.

So why won't my legs stop moving?

There's no escaping death, not anymore, not for me. It's looming over me like a rain cloud, and I can't outrun it. If I slow down, even a little, it will catch up.

I don't want to die though.. not yet...

But I know deep down that I will. I will be dead soon.

So maybe I should just...

Stop.

And now... they catch me... they take me to the station... they question me, they scream at me.... and then they have a knife... I'm in a chair... so this must be acceptance..?

I know I'm going to die... I'm still scared but... maybe it's not so terrible.. I deserve it after all.

Suddenly I'm being spoken to, the person holding the knife to my throat is talking to me...

"Any last words?" They ask,

I dont know if I say it out loud but....

I want my mum...