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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


    'Twas a long and dark December
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    Leilan
    He is not needed. Not as much as he once was, not as much as he should. He is drifting, anchorless, floating. The warm season doesn't help: his teleportation skills are limited, so he turns to snow and drifts, drifts, drifts, and then the snow lands in the mountains, where they belong forever. Mountains that once cradled him in a period where he was the same as he was now - loosened. Away from reality. Just like now.

    He shouldn't have let them crack and scale his ice walls. The children were evidently the start of that mistake; loving them, caring for them, just being a part of their lives had been an effort that had opened him up. It had left him vulnerable. Now he realizes once again that he shouldn't have. He could have just let it be, and they'd probably be not too different from who they were now. It wouldn't have been a problem. His offspring was always better off with just their mothers.

    The snowflakes land on the peaks of Hyaline's mountains, next to the cave where Sabra once spent several nights. Or, well, her body anyway.

    They take the form of the sturdy ice mage and the now white icy flake-horse smiles a bit, remembering that time. She had almost literally asked to be killed - a forced rest if you will, even if it had been temporary. Lilliana hadn't died on purpose, but when she had, she had wanted it to stay that way, as much that it was evident in everything she did and said about it. Who was he to deny her that rest? Just because he couldn't find his own? No, it had to stop. He was going to protect his heart once and for all, this time.

    He had tried to shield it, but it wasn't enough anymore. So now, emerged in the cold of the eternal snow atop the Eastern Kingdom's mountains, the snow-horse takes out the part of his chest that is torturing him so. Bled dry as he expected it to look (or perhaps that's why), he encages it with a Magic so strong it nearly melts a glacier nearby. Whoever would get near... they wouldn't survive the cold unless they were already suited for the ice. He cannot make it any safer. He cannot shield it any longer, not while he carries it with him. So he lets the ice magic take it, lets the veins freeze, encages it in the magic that makes every fluid transition to a timeless stage.

    He copies and replaces it. It feels cold in his chest, but he is currently made of hail and snow, and to the ice-magician, it makes little difference; the ice had always been in his blood, and now he only solidifies that relationship.

    He transforms again, back into an ice dragon - the magic is easier to use than teleportation, with a kingdom full of shifters to siphon off. In this familiar shape, he takes his heart in his claws and flies north. He knows exactly where to bury this hurtful thing.

    When he returns, he curls up in his old dragon cave. If any of the kingdom members would object, well, he had belonged among them for some time now.

    The ice mage is content with his hideout, and for the first time in years, he is not worried.
    from the windows they were watching
    while we froze, down below
    Two things I know I can make: pretty kids, and people mad.
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    Messages In This Thread
    'Twas a long and dark December - by Leilan - 10-05-2021, 06:21 AM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by bolder - 10-07-2021, 02:50 PM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by Leilan - 10-12-2021, 12:46 AM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by bolder - 10-24-2021, 08:21 PM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by Viszla - 10-27-2021, 06:58 AM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by Leilan - 11-11-2021, 03:42 PM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by bolder - 11-30-2021, 01:00 PM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by Viszla - 12-11-2021, 11:53 AM
    RE: 'Twas a long and dark December - by Leilan - 01-18-2022, 12:01 PM



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