| she's the only one who knows what it is to burn.
Before everything, she had told Ghaul that if he needed assistance in Loess that she would be ready to send aid. For this reason, she’d established a thin connection between his mind and her own. Magic had limitations, of course, but Anaxarete had centuries of experience. She knew how to keep mental connections with others open without expending too much of her own energy. It was how she’d maintained control of the Xenomorphs for so long from such great distances.
So when the thin connection between her mind and Ghaul’s was suddenly severed – she knew in that moment that something had gone wrong. There were very few explanations for what could had severed her magic so suddenly and absolutely, and none of the explanations were good.
The scene in Loess is similar to one she’d just left in Nerine. Ash rains from the sky. She steps from the portal of shadow and her cold gaze immediately falls upon what was once Ghaul. Something like remorse tugs at her, but the shadowmare had lost the capacity for emotion so long ago. She pays little attention to what is unfolding around her – she is not here to intervene in the conflict. Instead – the shadows rise from the earth around Ghaul’s broken body, wrapping him and all of the broken pieces in a shroud of darkness in shadow. The process almost looks gentle, considering the surroundings. The delicate threads of shadow continue to wind until there is no sign of the charred, broken flesh – only a smooth, velvet pall of darkness.
She speaks into the minds of the Pangeans who have come – so they will understand what she has done.
“I am taking his body home to Pangea, where he belongs.” Anaxarete, while not one known for being sentimental, felt that the was the very least of what Ghaul deserved. Pangea had come a long way from the empty desert that it once was, and now the stage was set for Pangea to serve as the birthplace for a new version of the Chamber of old. For Ghaul’s role in that, the shadowmare would be eternally grateful. So when those that loved him returned and the fires burned bright in Pangea once more, she would ensure that he would be given a fitting burial.
And in a swirl of shadow, she steps back into the portal of darkness with the shrouded body and is gone.
a n a x a r e t e . |
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tl;dr - Ana popped in on her way home from Nerine to take Ghaul's body back to Pangea after she felt her connection with him disappear. She also mentally tells the Pangeans that's what shes doing. Then she leaves. Carry on.
