[thinking about that quietly for a few seconds, tail flicking.]
Then-- if she really wanted to keep you, maybe that was part of it? Keep blanking everything else out, make sure there's no chance you end up turning from her, or leaving. Remembering anything else but that.
The Nightsong was there for a century. Lady Shar sent those who wished to become Dark Justiciars to slay her again and again. She was immortal, so she always recovered from death eventually.
Somehow my meeting with her was different. Both Lady Shar and she seemed to believe that a death delivered by my hand would be her permanent end. And I don't know why that would be, but perhaps it has something to do with what Lady Shar wanted me for.
...we didn't do it, either. I used some spear we found to bust them out. But after that, we definitely had to get a move on, or I feel like we'd have been in some pretty deep shit.
[they didn't see whoever it was again, that's for sure.]
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Date: 2025-03-13 04:26 pm (UTC)[thinking about that quietly for a few seconds, tail flicking.]
Then-- if she really wanted to keep you, maybe that was part of it? Keep blanking everything else out, make sure there's no chance you end up turning from her, or leaving. Remembering anything else but that.
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Date: 2025-03-14 01:15 pm (UTC)[it's a very unsettling thought.]
The Nightsong was there for a century. Lady Shar sent those who wished to become Dark Justiciars to slay her again and again. She was immortal, so she always recovered from death eventually.
Somehow my meeting with her was different. Both Lady Shar and she seemed to believe that a death delivered by my hand would be her permanent end. And I don't know why that would be, but perhaps it has something to do with what Lady Shar wanted me for.
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Date: 2025-03-14 06:18 pm (UTC)[wiš'adel has no idea how or why, but-- that seems likeliest to her. that shar had a need of her in some way.]
Did you do it?
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Date: 2025-03-14 10:23 pm (UTC)[pursing her lips, though.]
I didn't. When it came down to it, whether I'd acknowledged it, my faith in Shar had been wavering for some time.
But I also didn't live long enough after to find out whether I'll ever learn anything from her.
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Date: 2025-03-14 11:39 pm (UTC)[they didn't see whoever it was again, that's for sure.]
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Date: 2025-03-15 12:13 am (UTC)[that's pretty much how it happened to her.]
I wasn't able to get out of there in time.