legends never die.

ASHE    Mort beckoned, and the world narrowed on his outstretched hand. On his smile waiting behind it, full of a heartbreaking sort of love. Ashe took a slow breath as she tore her eyes from the god and gave Kalt a lingering look. Death and rebirth all in one. But I will be with you. Unimaginable pain had been a constant in her life since she was a child, and she had only ever trusted a single person to guide her through it, all that time.    She gave Kalt a wavering smile, squeezing his hand tightly before she released him and turned to Mort. His lips were curved into a crooked smile that tugged at her heart, but his voice resounded in her all the same. To rid herself of an eternity of being alone, yes, but to get Ronin back? Ashe would light her fear on fire, and so she could do nothing else but reach out for Death until her small hand slid into his.    There was pain.    And then there was this.    The whole world vanished into something deeper and far more vast than any dark she had ever been in. It was intangible and undulating and warm, but there was nothing and no one that could give her the will to appreciate the beauty of it. Not as her very soul was cleaved into with power she could never hope to fathom.    She couldn’t scream if she wanted to, she wasn’t even sure if she had a body to scream with, to sob with, to shake and arch away from this like it would. She felt every crack that snapped through the armor of her very being, and gods, oh gods, she was going to die - she was splintering - her heart would burst - her bones would be dust - her lungs would tear - there would be nothing left --    But she wasn’t alone.    She felt him, everything he was, Death enveloping her in such love and warmth that she became aware that she did have a body, that something contained this soul that was being dismantled - and it was weeping with her breaking. Even through this agony she wasn’t sure she could ever comprehend when this was over, she was so aware of his comfort. Aware of the vastness of his being that held her as he ripped her immortal life from her soul.    Collapsing into herself, this was her death. And it was her rebirth. Break through the barricade you gotta keep on fighting, facing giants, unafraid born to move these mountains out of your way.

The world around Ashetta spun and broke, but through it all, death was there as he always had been. Closer by far in some ways, but in others perhaps not. For Ashe had embraced death enumerable times in her past, though never quite like this.

As the chaos came to a head, the metaphysical balancing taking place, the world shimmered and steadied as the glade reappeared around them.

"There. It is done." Mort whispered, his words a wonderful echo in the mind of the wolf as he gently pulled away.

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Honey is using 1500 MP to bring RONIN back as a demi-god! Because of his IC interactions with Safrin and this magical sacrifice from Ashetta, this has become an option. However he will be stripped of all items, powers, posts, and previously added stats and will begin as a 'new' character for all intents and purposes.

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Table base by Sky!