The Stereotypical Drafts

by JinxTJL

4/9/22 - Chapter 44 - Descriptive Agony

Now or never.

He let a familiarly unfamiliar energy rise up in him, and lit his-

The world spun, heat flared behind his eyes, and suddenly: he couldn't see.

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His chest was hot! Burning and seething and spreading in agonizing, perverse detail. First warm, then hot, then immolating his flesh in coils of meat that snapped off at ends then found more. Lines through his body lit like oiled rope, and he could count every one of them as though he was staring directly at them. One, then ten, then hundreds and only higher.

It cordoned his heart, then tightened into the organ like electrified barbed wire pulled taut. His stomach upended, but the sick he could feel expelled up his throat just fizzled into fuel for the fire that then crept in opposite directions through his body.

Down the line of his spine, and could swear he became airborne for one, terrified second; before he fell hard to the earth, suffocating him with great mounds of dirt as it engulfed his hooves.

Up the veins of his neck, and his throat filled with water that boiled in an instant as the fire stopped at his neck; before creeping up the charred tube into his skull.

He first felt it behind his eyes just before they popped, as his vision swept away in an instant as his sight melted away. Each sense filled in turn with fire as it crept along the last bastion towards the tips of his being, and then, it finally reached his-

He blinked, and it all swept away.

The world returned in an instant as his head jerked back, to an upright angle that only seemed as upright as- It cuts here. Too bad!

Author's Note:

I had gone a little wild with the descriptors here. Can you tell?

It's too bad this got cut, but I know why it did. It's another case of simply being too dramatic. I was worried people would misunderstand the phenomena of Light's magic turning back on if I made it too gruesome, so it got toned down.

...Oh yeah, if you hadn't understood this part in the actual chapter, It was Light's magic turning back on. I sort of made that fact a little innocuous if you're not the sort to sift carefully through every word.

The assumption that I don't think I ever got around to explaining being that, while he was stricken with amnesia, there was some sort of block on his magic. He hadn't actually performed any magic since having his memory returned to him, and when he went to try, he experienced... let's say it was something like a broken dam.

The descriptions I came up with for his mana filling his veins once more are pretty vivid, and actually point to a bit of magical lore I plan on introducing someday. Too bad it got cut, huh?