A/N: Written for the Dice and Drabbles Challenge at the Selectors Challenges Forum with second roll=4, (total=10) prompt: instrument.

The Bonds We All Make
2: Instrument 1 (Akira)

Knives made scars. Knives made wounds that the wind dusted salt upon. Knives made stabbing pains that faded with time but never really went away.

But knives were also useful things, because like they hurt her, they could hurt others the same way. She could make it her tool, her weapon, for revenge. Then it would be more than something that caused pain: it would cause her pleasure as well, that euphoric grin that drank in the sight of blood pouring from somebody else's face.

Maybe those endorphins would take away the sting of the wound on her own face.