The Silence of Sound
Before I obtained the Sound Curse, I was only partially aware of the functions behind Sea Curses. I assumed they were like Magic, only stronger, with the additional benefits of being able to cast quick enough to dodge attacks and fly with ease, along with the immortality.
I was wrong. I do not cast magic.
Obtaining the Sound Curse has changed me. My body is no longer what it used to be.
I am Sound. I am not Sound Magic, but Sound. My body is now the element of Sound, and I merely use magic as the method to make the Sound which I am, a weapon.
Magic is the bridge which allows me to transform my body to avoid attacks, extending it in the form of this gift like a blade. I do not have the weaknesses that Magic Energy provides. I am not mimicking Sound to make a noise, or create a shockwave, but using Sound to strip people of their senses, plunge them into a bubble of nothingness. Hide my breathing as I follow a Corsair, stun people with deafening bangs, cause them pain.
The toll it has taken on me personally has also been great, I feel detached. I feel cold. I feel almost evil, I have power to disorient people, remove their gifts of humanity. I don’t deserve the power to do this. I don’t deserve this control.
Yet I am the one to have it.
Great Zeus, I’ll miss Adiela when she’s gone.
I am permanent. If I am not slain by the Corsairs, I will carry on forever. I would just ask for some God of sorts to remove this burden from me, but I also know that I must serve my Navy, as the Astoria Kingdom only reformed to do good, or so I was told.
I’ve considered sending her into hiding. I don’t think Headquarters, even if it’s an impenetrable fortress to cannons and Curses, is enough. Corruption is sewn throughout our ranks and now it’s not only the Pirates who will target me, and therefore her, but also power hungry individuals and Kingdoms after my Curse.
I’ve sometimes stood on the Lord’s Regime and looked out into the Dark Sea. We’re surrounded, some sort of bubble where there just might be something beyond. I wonder if there’s other Kingdoms out there, I wonder if there’s a place without Curses and Kingdoms at all - perhaps people live in peace as individuals.
What if there’s an end? Does the world just drop into the sky? Or is there some sort of magical border or mountain in the way, deep into the Dark Sea. Once I stood on the top of Headquarters and looked over Chimera and all the way into the Aegean, and it occurred to me - ships disappear over the horizon if they’re far enough. There must be a curve. I don’t know how great of one there is though.
It’s not an idea I’ll pass off, but the thought of us living on a giant sphere scares me. It must be huge if we can barely notice it curving even from such great heights. There could be hundreds… no, millions of people living on the other side of this giant rock… all of which are free from my troubles.
I wonder if we can prove it. Like, sail to the other side. If it is a sphere… surely we’ll come back right here. We might see some more people on the way. Will they be like us? Can they use Magic? Perhaps the Gods know, or there might be someone old enough to tell us.
Surely there’s so many people who can answer my questions, so where are they? Why can’t they be here for me to ask them?
If those who believe in the Great Protector are right, although personally from what I’ve heard about the ruins lying on Mount Othrys, I tend to believe in the survival of the Olympian Gods more, there could have been a whole different life before this.
Oh, how naïve I feel in such a large world.
Adiela, please don’t leave me.