[KQ] since the day you departed

KIADA

do not misunderstand me when i call myself a shell

i mean a used up bullet casing

Well, she has expected something far more cryptic. A soul for a soul, perhaps. But Ascended upgrades? Her thoughts drift to her mother, ascended now, but her stomach swirls with uncertainty at the idea of it. She doesn’t want to leave and come back, beg and grovel for items that are probably not enough for the price of his soul in her eyes. Nor does she think that it would work, a simple trick to perhaps recreate a Spire Demon? No thanks.

But her thoughts are short lived as more rocks come hurtling toward her, hitting her knees and legs with a resounding impact. Next time, she tells herself, she needs armor to cover her person and not just the vital bits. But the crossbow is in hand and she swings it toward the monsters that are throwing the rocks as Auni remains between them, antler staff hooked against his own in an easy to grab manner.

She shifts the weight on her feet, icy eyes looking up to the soul with longing and pain. “There isn’t enough ascended upgrades I know of to be able to trade.” She announces, no amount of ascended upgrades or items would be worth it to her to trade. So she bites down on her cheek, swinging the crossbow up and aiming into the darkness, firing an arrow off into the dark, somewhat by Ru’in’s soul.

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Kiada declines the barter, and fires an arrow up toward the darkness above them.

as in, the aftermath of something lethal

as in, an echo of inflicted evil