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[[Ahsa]] settled from a long journey within an undersea cavern, pocketed by air. [[Síocháin]] surveyed the mix of ancient rig foundations and natural stone. It seemed quiet enough, and [[Sloane]] needed rest. No [[Hive]] barnacles grew there. Ahsa had swam far from the largest concentrations of Hive and [[Taken]] and hid away in a cove tucked beneath [[Golden Age]] wreckage. | |||
Ahsa settled from a long journey within an undersea cavern, pocketed by air. Síocháin surveyed the mix of ancient rig foundations and natural stone. It seemed quiet enough, and Sloane needed rest. No Hive barnacles grew there. Ahsa had swam far from the largest concentrations of Hive and Taken and hid away in a cove tucked beneath Golden Age wreckage. | |||
Ahsa filled the yawning space. She slipped through gaps and wrapped herself around plunging stalactites, her serpent-worm segmentations gripping the stone, her face half-submerged in slick methane liquid. | Ahsa filled the yawning space. She slipped through gaps and wrapped herself around plunging stalactites, her serpent-worm segmentations gripping the stone, her face half-submerged in slick methane liquid. | ||
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The worm coiled a section of her body around Sloane, trapping in the heat around her. | The worm coiled a section of her body around Sloane, trapping in the heat around her. | ||
Síocháin watched every exchange between the two and drifted out of Sloane's earshot to the worm's gargantuan face. Ahsa's attention snapped to the blades now protruding from the Ghost's shell. | Síocháin watched every exchange between the two and drifted out of Sloane's earshot to the worm's gargantuan face. Ahsa's attention snapped to the blades now protruding from the [[Ghost]]'s shell. | ||
The Ghost got good and close. "I don't know why you helped us. You seem nice. I hope you stay that way. If you're using her, if you turn coat…" Síocháin sliced the air. "I'll gut you." | The Ghost got good and close. "I don't know why you helped us. You seem nice. I hope you stay that way. If you're using her, if you turn coat…" Síocháin sliced the air. "I'll gut you." | ||
Ahsa's massive eye dialed in on Síocháin's iris. The two stared unblinkingly until the worm's eyelid gently closed. She emitted a tone of contrite harmonic equilibrium: | Ahsa's massive eye dialed in on Síocháin's iris. The two stared unblinkingly until the [[Worm|worm]]'s eyelid gently closed. She emitted a tone of contrite harmonic equilibrium: | ||
|I am not your enemy| | |I am not your enemy| | ||
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Sloane sat in meditation within, radiating a sense of peace that Síocháin hadn't felt from her in months. The Ghost let herself pretend for a moment that even she felt almost safe. | Sloane sat in meditation within, radiating a sense of peace that Síocháin hadn't felt from her in months. The Ghost let herself pretend for a moment that even she felt almost safe. | ||
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It was morning before Sloane woke. Ahsa met Sloane's eyes through her visor. The tilt of her enormous head signaled a sort of greeting or eagerness. Sloane removed her helmet. "Need something?" | It was morning before Sloane woke. Ahsa met Sloane's eyes through her visor. The tilt of her enormous head signaled a sort of greeting or eagerness. Sloane removed her helmet. "Need something?" | ||
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Sloane tumbled through timeless alien remembrances. She was shown them; spoke of them, as if they are her own. Origins and sorrows she now shared. | Sloane tumbled through timeless alien remembrances. She was shown them; spoke of them, as if they are her own. Origins and sorrows she now shared. | ||
" | "[[The Witness|Witness]]… offers… powerful curse… a [[Sword Logic|lust]]… masquerading as love." Sloane exhaled hard. But Ahsa maintained her gaze, and Sloane was swept back into the current. | ||
"A | "A [[Final Shape|blade]]… with ambition… I don't… I don't understand." | ||
Flashes of fratricidal frenzy ensue: a slither-mass carnage. Those once ever-bonded now drive fang and lash of tail; proclaim Deep magics once thought too cruel to utter. All in pursuit of a sacred, gifted logic. | Flashes of fratricidal frenzy ensue: a slither-mass carnage. Those once ever-bonded now drive fang and lash of tail; proclaim [[Darkness|Deep]] magics once thought too cruel to utter. All in pursuit of a sacred, gifted logic. | ||
Vortexes that drink empty fathoms of encrimsoned Fundament sea churn above the fray. Ahsa cannot escape the writhe without unraveling from her captors with violence. She stains her fangs with the flesh of siblings turned rivals. | Vortexes that drink empty fathoms of encrimsoned [[Fundament]] sea churn above the fray. Ahsa cannot escape the writhe without unraveling from her captors with violence. She stains her fangs with the flesh of siblings turned rivals. | ||
"Blood… betrays blood. To prove strength. Survival… is pain…" | "Blood… betrays blood. To prove strength. Survival… is pain…" | ||
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"Rejected logic… hunted as traitor… lost like you." | "Rejected logic… hunted as traitor… lost like you." | ||
Ahsa dives into an ascendant dream. Cosmic language bathes her as she ventures—radio-songs and magnetic roars that bellow across space. She slips between worlds across great distances, breaches back into space to glide along the curvature of galaxies, chasing a distant point of Light. A solar opposite to that which Takes love. | Ahsa dives into an ascendant dream. Cosmic language bathes her as she ventures—radio-songs and magnetic roars that bellow across space. She slips between worlds across great distances, breaches back into space to glide along the curvature of galaxies, chasing a distant point of [[Light]]. A solar opposite to that which Takes love. | ||
Sloane gasped for air. "She came here for a chance to live." | Sloane gasped for air. "She came [[Titan (moon)|here]] for a chance to live." | ||
Ahsa crashes through Titan's thick skin and into its methane sea. The expansion of | Ahsa crashes through Titan's thick skin and into its methane sea. The expansion of [[Human]]ity across Sol unfolds as she mourns. Within a [[Golden Age]] a bond is found. The [[Collapse]] found them; a bond is lost. She wages a battle of grief, fights against nightmares of despair. | ||
"The | "The [[Disciples of the Witness|Disciple]]… of [[Nezarec, Final God of Pain|Fear]]… struck Ahsa. I…" | ||
Síocháin piqued at the title. | Síocháin piqued at the title. | ||