I can give you freedom from your guilt with a flick of my wrist
Children. The pretender is changing children.
With Juniper’s words still bouncing in her head like ricocheting shrapnel, Nephele makes her way to the shrine in a daze. She’d returned to her home only long enough to grab the vial of fluid she’d stolen from the Ascended’s body when she killed him. The scientist in her had begged to examine it. It was a desire that had been ruthlessly squashed. Ludo would know best its uses. Her own curiosity could wait.
Feet settling on the wood quietly, she folds her wings down against her spine and stares at the candles of the shrine. “Ludo. I need your guidance in my mission. Please.” A mission she had taken to wholeheartedly; blinding Nate, killing and desecrating Robin’s body to spread throughout the lands, poisoning even Juniper’s mind against them with her carefully worded revelations. Still, it was nothing in the face of the atrocities The Voice had escalated to.
With Juniper’s words still bouncing in her head like ricocheting shrapnel, Nephele makes her way to the shrine in a daze. She’d returned to her home only long enough to grab the vial of fluid she’d stolen from the Ascended’s body when she killed him. The scientist in her had begged to examine it. It was a desire that had been ruthlessly squashed. Ludo would know best its uses. Her own curiosity could wait.
Feet settling on the wood quietly, she folds her wings down against her spine and stares at the candles of the shrine. “Ludo. I need your guidance in my mission. Please.” A mission she had taken to wholeheartedly; blinding Nate, killing and desecrating Robin’s body to spread throughout the lands, poisoning even Juniper’s mind against them with her carefully worded revelations. Still, it was nothing in the face of the atrocities The Voice had escalated to.
I can give you death with the look upon my face
