They don't move. They can't. Everything feels frozen, suspended in place between one heartbeat and the next. All they can do is watch him drop, seeing it without really comprehending- what? What is there to understand, anyway? There's nothing wrong. He was just talking-
The moment passes. Time resumes. ]
Will!
[ The scream is unwanted, but they can't help it. It's only the twelve long months of learning to be better then they were that day that keeps them from stopping entirely. Even so, they end up almost tripping on the snow in their haste to get to his side.
shit, they can't tell if- what- happened without the Oath, should they try Ceremony? No time. Spare The Dying is faster, they know it better. It was the first spell they learned of their own free will, after all. It takes no time at all to call that familar golden glow to their hand and
nothing happens.
try again.
nothing happens. ]
What... [ Breathe, Lion, past the awful lump growing in their throat. ] I-if this is meant to be a joke, it isn't funny.
[ So maybe they sound a little desperate, but who could blame them? It's not every day that someone just spontaneously starts to die in front of you.
Somewhere, a speck of gold leaf crumbles into nothing on the wind. And far above, unnoticed, the moon begins to fall. ]
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They don't move. They can't. Everything feels frozen, suspended in place between one heartbeat and the next. All they can do is watch him drop, seeing it without really comprehending- what? What is there to understand, anyway? There's nothing wrong. He was just talking-
The moment passes. Time resumes. ]
Will!
[ The scream is unwanted, but they can't help it. It's only the twelve long months of learning to be better then they were that day that keeps them from stopping entirely. Even so, they end up almost tripping on the snow in their haste to get to his side.
shit, they can't tell if- what- happened without the Oath, should they try Ceremony? No time. Spare The Dying is faster, they know it better. It was the first spell they learned of their own free will, after all. It takes no time at all to call that familar golden glow to their hand and
nothing happens.
try again.
nothing happens. ]
What... [ Breathe, Lion, past the awful lump growing in their throat. ] I-if this is meant to be a joke, it isn't funny.
[ So maybe they sound a little desperate, but who could blame them? It's not every day that someone just spontaneously starts to die in front of you.
Somewhere, a speck of gold leaf crumbles into nothing on the wind. And far above, unnoticed, the moon begins to fall. ]