Drabble: 'Red'. Ethan-y but unspecific.

[beccaelizabeth]

Blood isn’t red, you know.

There is a moment when blood is brightest red, almost a primary colour. The first bright bead of it seeping out a wound is the reddest thing you’ll ever see.

But spill a little more of it and it becomes something else - wine, burgundy, something deeper. Blood in quantity is very dark indeed.

Left to dry it is seldom red at all. Brown perhaps, or even black.

In veins, of course, it can be purple, even blue. No royalty required.

Blue, red, black, my sacrifice changes. Just as the loss of it changes me.

Comments

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm.