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if you think i'm pretty, you should see me in a crown
The dead did not answer her, but they welcomed her with open arms. Imploring her to breathe, to sit, to simply be with them. She stood among them in a daze, eyes greedily drinking in the sight of them all moving and smiling and breathing. Stay, they told her, for she was tired, and she missed them. Zariah’s sharp voice called out, and Ashe ripped her eyes away to find both the Launcelyn and the ascended trying to leave, but their paths were blocked by more spectres of the dead. Her breath grew shallow as she looked back to Jasper, to MJ, to her father, to Felicity and Isabella. To Ronin. Stay they said. And gods.. gods, she felt herself growing weaker, wanting to stay, to hear them and see them all again. Ronin.. Then a firm voice of silver and shadow slipped in between her thoughts: ’Ashe, you’re getting weaker. You gotta get out of there now. It’s not real. Go, you have to get out.’ Kalt. She grasped for the bond then, a grounding tether to what was real. She didn’t let herself think of what she was doing. Her heart surged as she sent lightning forth from an outstretched palm, her eyes wide with nothing short of horror as that power struck and arced through them one by one: First Jasper, then MJ, then Felicity and Isabella, her father, all in a fraction of a second electrocuted and burned - but it guttered out as she looked up at Ronin. Her lightning failed her, and she hesitated. She couldn’t, not Ronin, not with him smiling down at her. The others, they had been dead for some time, she accepted they were gone, had mourned each of them. But Ronin - ’Ashe, he’s dead! It isn’t real! It will kill you! It’s a conjured figure, not him.’ Her hand shook. Stay, the dead told her, and she felt weak… But Ronin had told her to live. ”I’ll bring you back,” she whispered against the gathering silver that lined her eyes as she tried to summon her lightning, but even her magic rebelled against this. ’Don’t hesitate. End it now!’ Kalt’s command down the bond jarred the assassin so much that she lunged. With a ragged sob, Ashe plunged Reckoning up and into Ronin’s heart. Ashe was sure she felt the blade cleave through flesh and bone, and blood - hot and slick - shower her hand. She wept, yanking out the sword, and she thought she felt the reverberations of bones against the blade stinging her hand. Live. She turned to move for the door, for the stairs, to get away and escape the burning image of what she'd done. The soul bond was used through her magic ring for Kalt to ground Ashe (Kalt dialogue written by Sage) while she used her lightning to strike down all but Ronin, who was stabbed with her sword before she tried to make her escape. (honey you evil sHIT) Type: Light Magic Rings | These rings connect the two wearers mentally - meaning telepathically and emotionally, rendering them privy to each other's every feeling and thought when untrained in protecting one's mind. This can cover vast distances. They will only function together if they are both put on with knowledgeable consent from both wearers. your silence is my favorite sound watch me make 'em bow one by one by one
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