i've been trying to sleep

ASHƎ i did my best to control the growing unrest in my soul.     She refused to shrink back as Safrin approached, no matter how much instinct demanded the wolf shy away from the powerful being. The goddess was gentle in both her touch and words however, and Ashe drew her brows together as she looked down to her closed hand. Wordlessly, she drew her hand back with the tip of the blade in her grasp, listening without looking up.     Ashe nodded and thought in silence for a moment, her chest feeling tight. Hope. She had hope. She hung onto that tiny, bright thread in the depths of her grief, and she turned eyes that smoldered with the beginnings of a fire up to Safrin.     "The ascended then," she said, her voice perhaps a bit steadier now. "They want out too, and they can enter." She bit the inside of her lip, thinking of Roana's intentions the next day, the conversation they'd had... fuck playing nice then, and fuck the Natural's sensitive feelings. Ashe was no hero, and this had gotten deeply personal. And there were people in her fucking way. "I'll get him back. Once that barrier comes down, I'll get him back. Will you help me? Will I need Vi as well?" She knew who she was going to next: Ludo. Ludo was the closest step forward to prepare... but for the dead to be returned to life? She would be unsurprised if the gods of each were needed for such a feat.