Initiative blogpost#22

 

Initiative; the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do.

 

As time slows terribly around and you get a glimpse of what it feels like to exist past the pattern of time. Ever moving and unstoppable. A perfect clarity on the flow of it and being able to crutch it in your grasp, that’s what it feels like to be immortal. And as you raise your chin, standing before something three feet taller than you, your eyes trail the creature’s hairy form, following humanoid structure with pure muscle and anger. You’d wish time ended right here as you’d be away from the imminent danger that’s about to rain down on you with claws hovering fourteen feet from the grass. With every crack of bone is heard, you come to senses that theres another one of these taking form as go. Looking into the mouth of a werewolf that’s willing to bite off your head and skim claws through you like butter. There’s a certain pressure building around you, implying the space is closing in and you’re going to have to make a decision. So, like any wise person would do, you choose to step aside and shove your knife forward. A very simple two step action. Dancing the beat of life and death.

 

The pressure now engulfs, you. The strength you impose over the flow of time is killing you from within. And you know that the moment you let out your breath, time is going to continue. What’s happening you wonder? The answer is quite simple. You’ve spent too much time exploiting the luxury of being the highest initiative. As time once again sets in motion and the claw and fang striking down on you resumes. However, the werewolf misses its target completely and tears into his ally who now took the complete form of a werewolf. Time has not worked in their favor as you acted before them. You slipped past the trajectory as a blur who caught hold of time and ran with it. As and your knife drives into the gut of the enemy, you feel the subtle vibrations felt as cold steel shreds organs. At that point you’ve realized the importance of initiative. A boon to the men focused onto it, now being able to strategize his every move. You trained and you advanced. You have imposed more control on the mind itself, a trophy received from following the path of focused mind.

 

And it all came clashing down over you in this very moment of success in cheating death. But how many times can you cheat death? There is an answer. Infinitely, if you control time. And that became a goal.