i. ii. iii. iv. v.

even ice can cause a ʙᴜʀɴ !

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Anonymous:
"Do you consider yourself to be graceful and elegant?"

           ”…Consider myself such things? I don’t think those’d be the first two
            adjectives I associate with who I am, no. Though I have been told as
            much before, they seem to be a judgement passed upon me on a far
            more superficial level, just the observations of a first encounter.

                                  Let me ask you this: do you believe ice is graceful and elegant?
                                  Surely, you’ve seen an ice sculpture before, perhaps at a wedding;
                                  an impressive, fleeting, temporary Swanna carved beautifully into
                                  crystal-clear ice. But that ice sculpture is a lie, a fabrication.

      It’s been treated. Manipulated by the artist to that state of transparency.
      In truth, natural ice is almost opaque, never akin to glass, of all things.
      If you want to see the true nature of ice, I’d urge you to visit somewhere
      far to the north, perhaps the island my ancestors inhabited. It’s damn
      cold there, so I wouldn’t blame you if you’d pass on a visit. I would, too.”

                          “—-But I’ll give you the short story, what you’d realize if you
                              stood atop an ancient glacier: graceful and elegant as it may
                              seem from afar, true ice is never these things up close. It’s
                              ferocious. Deadly, unforgiving, and cruel. It wishes nothing
                              but to conquer every challenger in its path:

                                                 the earth beneath its front, the sky above, the puny
                                                 human being who dares traverse its fields. It wants
                                                 to force you to submit to its will. And ice knows
                                                 it’s capable of doing such a thing, with great patience
                                                 and slow undermining of your every strength. If you
                                                 underestimate the power and lethality of ice for even
                                                 a moment, that’s when it gets you,
                                                                           when it takes you down.”

            “So…No.

                       I don’t consider myself graceful and elegant.
                       What I consider myself is ‘not to be fucked with’.  
                       And I sincerely hope you’ll take that to heart.”