Cassie vision's through her versatile aspect reached nephis and the still corpse that was Sunny.
It was haunting.
She had envisioned the future, all possibilities endeavored, yet here she was , the future she envisioned, the possibilities she saw gone, the person around whom her visions always centered around silent and dead.
She had lost, lost to the destiny, lost to herself, lost everything.
But still, disgust rose in her heart, disgust at the cruel world, disgust For what weavers plan had led to abd more importantly, disgust at herself. For she had been powerless once again, blinded by fate's illusion, just like in the forgotten shore.
This time, with no way of redemption that was.
Fate had left her and so had sunny.
As she removed the scarf from her head, tears flowed down her sapphire eyes.
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As much as Effie wanted to look away and believe that nothing had happened. The truth was still ever present, directly infront of her eyes.
She thought that the share of death she had seen in the forgotten shore was enough to make her immune. But it wasn't.
Sunny was dead. His dead eyes reflected her when saw them.
What had she expected? She had expected a miracle. That miraculously he would have come back but no he didn't.
He had come to antartica to find his conviction. Maybe he had really found it ; she did not know. But he did not live to go on with that conviction.
Effie gritted her teeth in thought. As her eyes became watery by anger.
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Kai stared at the lifeless corpse that had been a human being. His friend had disappeared one day and he had not returned.
Throughout his life he had made no special connection, the deaths and rot he had seen in forgotten did not hit him that hard, until of course he met Sunny.
Now his real connection was gone. He felt it, the thorns in his consciousness. The thorns not only of guilt and sorrow but also of something else.
As much as Kai wanted to believe that he only felt sorrow, it was not the truth.
'Fear'. He felt fear. Fear that his other loved ones would also perish like this. That he would die like this.
Sunny, his lifeless corpse was staring back at him, he wanted to beleieve it was not the real deal. Maybe an illusion but no it was real and he felt it, the fear.
His friend was still him, losing no resemblance as if the world had thought of another cruelty to bestow upon them.
The crazy jokes that teased with flaw were gone. Long gone. Long gone was the soul that spoke them. The world had only left a shell to scar them.
Finally in sheer unbelief, his legs gave in and he fell to his knees.
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Waves crashed onto the solem deck of the dark painted hull of the ship. A torrent of flushed the deck. The weather was not merciful today nor was the sea.
The mundane had decided today to let out their sorrow on one wielding the lineage of the divine.
Jet's heavy gaze landed on Nephis. She stood at the bow of the ship looking out to the endless sea. Jet recognized that look.
A look of distraction. To find something to look to perch time upon. Jet had many times done the same many times. But this was not born out of boredom.
But Sorrow.
Jet's steps led her to the interior of the ship, shielding her from the downpour.
Though the vision in her eyes left her wanting to go back.
'Crap'
There he was. The body covered by white cloth. Ofcourse, no one wanted to leave his there in center antarctica. In a lonely and forgotten grave. As much as she wanted to believe she had done an "acceptable" job of last rites. To loved ones, it was disrespect to say the least.
Another look at the sprawled white cloth ended her sudden amused mood.
Sunny's body was to buried in NQSC, seemingly under a tree, atleast those were the words that changing star had said after three days of silence.
However, their current destination was East antarctica, only a fool would try to cross the Indian ocean without a armored armada of ships. Then the plan should have been to take one of the first evacuation ships directly to NQSC or to any other quadrant and then make another journey but she could see it in their eyes.
The willingness to fight. They were going to saty in east antarctica.
'Oh right, I forgot' Jet retraced her steps back to thr flushed deck of the ship. And then she moved to the stoic figure of changing star.
As a silent but seemingly terrifying gaze fell on her. Jet spoke first.
"I found this memory by his side when I found first found his body" Her hand moved forward, and as nephis made contact. The memory was transferred in a spark.
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Nephis recieved the memory that sunny had last held.
And then the Spell spoke.
[ You have recieved a memory]
[Sin of Solace]