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| Story snippets from the Talan chronicles | |
| By: WhistlewindWolf Date: May 15, 2016, 1:32 am | |
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| Exactly what it says on the tin | |
| Stories will be unordered, but will be labeled to whichever arc | |
| it takes place in. | |
| #Post#: 29238-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Story snippets from the Talan chronicles | |
| By: WhistlewindWolf Date: May 16, 2016, 12:09 am | |
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| Don't Say Goodbye - York and Carolina - The Emperor's Wrath | |
| The evacuation plans were nearly complete. | |
| "York, I need you to take Allie with you and go with everyone | |
| else." | |
| York heaved the last of the food crates onto the waiting wagon | |
| and looked at Carolina. "And what are you going to do?" She | |
| didn't answer, only turning to look at the Emperor that could be | |
| seen on the horizon. He followed her gaze and said, "Carolina, | |
| no--" | |
| "The Leaders and the rest of the clan need to be protected on | |
| the way out," she said. "I'm trusting you to be able to take | |
| care of all of them." | |
| He protested, "There aren't enough of us for it. Lightning, | |
| Kain, Suryako, and Lorica are great, but Allison and I won't | |
| make much of a difference. The clan is too big now. We need | |
| you." | |
| It was true that the evacuation party needed a bigger guard. But | |
| the soldiers who stayed behind to delay the Emperor needed a | |
| leader. And she needed to keep what was left of her family safe. | |
| If that meant facing the Emperor, she would do it without a | |
| second thought. | |
| "York, I can't--" | |
| "Damn it 'Lina, I can't lose you again!" Carolina paused and | |
| York continued, "Please...not again. It was hard enough thinking | |
| I'd lost you the first time. I don't want to actually lose you | |
| this time." She stood there thinking, and he desperately hoped | |
| that she would leave with them, that it wouldn't be a repeat of | |
| the destruction of their last clan, that she wouldn't be left to | |
| die alone again. | |
| "I need to make sure that my family is safe," she started. The | |
| pain in her eyes was one that he recognized and felt tearing him | |
| apart. "And that includes my team. I have to stay. I'm sorry." | |
| Defeated, he sighed. "Will you promise me something?" | |
| "Anything." | |
| "Promise me that with every choice you make, you'll think of | |
| Allie and me." He took off his necklace, holding it out for her. | |
| She took off her own and they traded with a nod. His gold | |
| pendant glittered against her feathers, and her jade one laid | |
| smooth against his. Something to remember each other by. "I love | |
| you," he said. "Stay safe." | |
| "I love you too." She flashed him an exasperated but fond smile. | |
| "And don't worry," she said. "You'll see me again." And she was | |
| gone, off to join the other soldiers. | |
| York felt his heart freeze and his blood turn to ice. He'd heard | |
| those words before, he knew where they came from. They haunted | |
| Carolina for years. They were the last words Carolina's mother | |
| said to her. And hearing them from her only meant one thing. | |
| Carolina didn't plan on coming back. | |
| ----- | |
| I bought them because I wanted them to have a happier ending | |
| than in canon but I'm slating her for death and I never meant | |
| for it to be this way | |
| ALL I DID WAS SWITCH WHO DIED THIS WASN'T MY INTENTION ;-; | |
| #Post#: 29742-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Story snippets from the Talan chronicles | |
| By: WhistlewindWolf Date: July 28, 2016, 6:59 pm | |
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| The Binding - Althea - The Emperor's Wrath | |
| "Althea, are you sure about this? To bind it to your pearl...to | |
| your soul... There has to be another way." | |
| She shook her head. "There is no other way. If I don't do this, | |
| then the sacrifices of everyone we lost will be for nothing. As | |
| a spirit walker, I am the only one who can do this." | |
| Iolite sighed resignedly. "All right then. Are you ready?" | |
| "It was my idea," Althea answered. | |
| "Begin the ritual." | |
| "Remember me." | |
| #Post#: 30085-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Story snippets from the Talan chronicles | |
| By: WhistlewindWolf Date: November 22, 2016, 12:47 pm | |
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| Reunion - York, Mahal, Carolina - The Arcane Exodus | |
| The recruits groaned as York made them run through their drills | |
| again. After the news of Carolina's death, he changed | |
| drastically. He became harsher, angrier, demanding more and more | |
| of himself and his trainees. The only ones he showed any care to | |
| were Allison and young Bellatora. Losing Carolina a second time | |
| broke something within him, and nobody thought the hurt would | |
| ever be healed. They understood, though. None of them were | |
| strangers to loss and York loved Carolina so deeply that their | |
| relationship was one of the most admired in the clan. | |
| York watched the recruits run through their drills when he heard | |
| someone calling his name and fast approaching. Turning, he saw | |
| Mahal flying toward him, yelling, "York! York! You have to see | |
| this!" | |
| He wearily asked, "What is it, Mahal? I'm in the middle of | |
| training." | |
| Mahal started speaking so quickly he couldn't make out half of | |
| what she said, but in the middle of it he clearly made out a | |
| "Carolina" and--no. It couldn't be possible. | |
| "What?" He turned fully to face Mahal, his good Lightning eye | |
| staring intensely into hers. The recruits forgotten, he growled, | |
| "What did you just say about Carolina?" | |
| She breathlessly replied, "Lorica and the sentries came in, and | |
| they had her! It was her, York! She's in the infirmary--" | |
| A flicker of hope he thought he would never feel again bloomed | |
| in his chest. He took off without another word, leaving behind | |
| Mahal with a squad of confused recruits. She went after him a | |
| moment later. | |
| ----- | |
| York landed outside the new infirmary, where someone led him to | |
| her. He couldn't believe his eyes. It was her. It was really | |
| her. She kept her promise. She came back. She was alive, and she | |
| was here. York started to laugh, short and disbelieving. Then as | |
| he took in her condition, the tears came. Unconscious, with | |
| splinted bones and bandaged wounds, magical burns and singed | |
| scales. It was bad, and the thought that she had come this far | |
| only to die here came unbidden. The spark of hope sputtered, but | |
| stayed alive, and he stayed next to her, waiting. Carolina was | |
| too strong to die here. And he was going to be with her until | |
| she woke up. | |
| York heard someone enter behind him. Mahal. "York..." | |
| "I'm not leaving her, Mahal. Not again." | |
| It was another week until Carolina opened her eyes. | |
| ----- | |
| What the **** I meant for Carolina to have a speaking part, this | |
| was supposed to be happy, how did this happen why is there angst | |
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