How do I keep myself from fallin' apart when I ain't never felt part of a whole?
Had they been looting, or had something driven them into the house to hide away? Had they even made it that far? There are a million things that could have happened, too many threads and too few answers, and Ru hates puzzles like those. She is about to cast down further questions for Deimos when the fog rolls inexorably inland once more, causing her to narrow her eyes to try and see through or beyond it to whatever could be causing it -
The memories come all at once, slamming into her like an arrow through her chest and making her wings stutter and lose altitude sharply. Dei -! she calls desperately, reaching out for the only touchstone she has and carelessly broadcasting wholly across the Attuned bond. His voice reaches her seconds later and she manages a spasm of her wings to keep herself from falling utterly from the sky. How can she not be fooled? Her sons are right there, so close but just out of reach, hands outstretched and silent cries on their tortured faces and -
She slams into the ground in human form, painfully crashing into the earth on all fours as she heaves, bile in her throat, and gasps for breath. No no no no no, she grips her hair in both hands, cowering in the dirt like a terrified child. The pain is too fresh for her to fight it the way Deimos does, stalwart and strong, and her emotions rage wild and untempered through the bond without a care for what it does to her kin. Deimos. Deimos. Please. Please. She's falling apart and she needs - she -
Helplessly she whips her magic around her in a circle, trying to cling to the Sword's words of a cause and remembering the horrible mist from the war. Which is a memory that only further reminds her of Enzo's bloodied face, the dragons screeching around them, Flora's gut-wrenching cries. Utterly useless, the Valkyrie cowers, and the tears come hot and fast.
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Ru falls out of the sky between Noah's position and the house, and tries a lame attempt at using her air magic to dispel the fog around her thinking it's the same as the mist from the Citadel attack.
The memories come all at once, slamming into her like an arrow through her chest and making her wings stutter and lose altitude sharply. Dei -! she calls desperately, reaching out for the only touchstone she has and carelessly broadcasting wholly across the Attuned bond. His voice reaches her seconds later and she manages a spasm of her wings to keep herself from falling utterly from the sky. How can she not be fooled? Her sons are right there, so close but just out of reach, hands outstretched and silent cries on their tortured faces and -
She slams into the ground in human form, painfully crashing into the earth on all fours as she heaves, bile in her throat, and gasps for breath. No no no no no, she grips her hair in both hands, cowering in the dirt like a terrified child. The pain is too fresh for her to fight it the way Deimos does, stalwart and strong, and her emotions rage wild and untempered through the bond without a care for what it does to her kin. Deimos. Deimos. Please. Please. She's falling apart and she needs - she -
Helplessly she whips her magic around her in a circle, trying to cling to the Sword's words of a cause and remembering the horrible mist from the war. Which is a memory that only further reminds her of Enzo's bloodied face, the dragons screeching around them, Flora's gut-wrenching cries. Utterly useless, the Valkyrie cowers, and the tears come hot and fast.
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Ru falls out of the sky between Noah's position and the house, and tries a lame attempt at using her air magic to dispel the fog around her thinking it's the same as the mist from the Citadel attack.
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