a champagne hiccup & weaponized bells

A shriek, a howl, a prolonged tee hee hee hee; a pause, a champagne hiccup, and everything shatters. A tinkling cackle pealing and slivering like weaponized bells, crystal blades that split and splinter the night. A lake that holds more stars than the sky ever dreamed of possessing - celestial sparklers, myriad, multiplying before your feet, even as your eyes glance upward noting their absence in the sky. What lake reflects what cannot be seen? What ghost swallows its own echo before sound can escape?Scent as the most terrifying Sailor Moon villain who never existed: pale as bone, bright as a blade, each breath is a fragment of a story where you are nothing more than a footnote. Merciless - all razor citrus and winter's exposed nerve. Each breath a weapon, each droplet a fragment flung from some terrible, glittering precipice. Mercy drowned long before you arrived. More stars than sky, more reflection than reality. You're not getting out of this alive.