Dishonored: A Gift for Emily by Xovinx, literature
Literature
Dishonored: A Gift for Emily
Emily Kaldwin, daughter of the Empress, sat on the dirty floor of a dingy attic, trying to find anything to draw that could keep herself from crying. The big sign outside with the yellow kitty cat. The mean old woman in charge of this place. The one nice lady who had given her crayons. Corvo. Mother. Both of them with Emily herself... like it used to be. Mother wasn't really dead. They - the ugly brothers - claimed that she was, and that Corvo had been the one to kill her, but they were lying. Corvo was their protector. "Were there any whales?" Corvo's hugs were like getting hugged by a bear. He smiled at her when she asked the question, but his eyes were sad. They got sadder when Emily asked if they could play before his meeting. "I'm sorry, Emily, but I have to go see your mother." They lied about Corvo, so they were lying about Mother, too. Mr. Sokolov had been right there, and he was some kind of doctor scientist genius. Everyone said he
They were lunatics, but only lunatics would take this kind of job. Undermine a global government. Topple technocratic gods. Slice open the power vacuum so wide, no single power could fill it. And all without letting on that they were aliens, because if that got out, it was the end of the world for sure. Jeke loved his job. He crouched in the dim glow of his Christmas lights and a dark-mode laptop screen, fingers twitching across the keyboard. His avatar jittered back and forth across the battlefield, dodging enemy attacks and slashing green ribbons of light through their techno-horrorcore models. Tinny sound was relayed perfectly through his top-of-the-line headphones - a fantastic rendition of intentionally low-tec but absolutely banging synth music. Go, go, go, we got it this time guys. We got it...! His internal encouragement tapped to the beat, the action on the screen a shallow reflection of his complete absorption in the universe behind the glass. The haunted man - the