Eagerness falls from her eyes and from her lips. To dream is to dream, and to experience reality is something else entirely. Bella: Maid, Assassin, Praetor, Chief, Demigod, Mosaic. Whatever you call her she is built for battle. Not for war. 

It is only here in this place that she understands the difference. Countless fights and a hundred bloody wounds suffered in the name of victory, and of perseverance, and of love itself so strong it spits in the face of Aphrodite, and not once has she seen war before now. It is not merely something she has no context for, but rather something she is built entirely counter to. XIII with her list of names could shut out war and turn an army into a thing to kill.

But Bella is all alone. With no golden path to guide her.
But Bella is all alone. With no silver path to guide her.
But Bella is all alone. With only love to guide her.

Bright light blossoms into flowers.
It roars with the fury of a beast m
ade of Thunder and it is the ang
er of Zeus
and it is the shriek of Ares from
beyond the veil of death
and

[right]Protect her keep her safe
You promised you could do that a
re you a liar or just stupid
Protect her keep her safe
That is your only role here
Block every bullet block every knife block[/right]

the crowing of Mars.
Fire flash and thunder clap.
Red and
[center]Blue and[/center]
Green and

[right]But who are you protecting?[/right]

Pink and
[center]Yellow and[/center]
Ring and Chime and
[center]Frost and Lime and[/center]

[Right]This is all for Her? But which? But who is--[/right]

And roar and scream and muzzle flash
And oil and shit and pilot crash
[center]and Brown and
Black and
Orange but[/center]

Pause. Terrible pause. 
Silence worse than darkness worse than

[right]What was your wish again, Bella Mosaic?[/right]

[center][h1]B L O O D[/h1][/center]

She hisses and froths and twitches, for all the good it does her. Her senses will not be shut off. A bodyguard cannot afford to be blind or deaf, or even block her nose from the scent of roses. Just in case. 

But her ankle catches in an uneven patch of ground. But it twists and wrenches and it fails her. But all of everything is joined by the hollow swoop in her stomach that means her sense of balance is abandoning her to the rush of gravity and she feels it pulling ten times harder than it should.

And then with only this for warning Bella is --

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And all alone. And all alone. And all alone. And nothing of honor to guide her.
And all alone. And all alone. And all alone. And nothing of joy to guide her.
And all alone. And all alone. And all alone. 

And all alone. And all alone.

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[right]Of.[/right]

[center][color=ed1c24]Love.[/color][/center]