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Just a short little snippet out of a story much larger that would take moths to write down... and I am an impatient and lazy fuck.","writing":"His breath was burning all the way from his lungs up to his throat with every breath, but he knew he had to keep running. Step for step, heavy yet feeling as if he was floating over the wet cobblestone road he was moving towards the docks. His heartbeat was drumming in his ears. The fight for the world, the life of everything depended on him, the chosen one surviving and bringing the Seed back to the Roots. Far ahead, against the dark nightsky he could make out a bark: small, wooden and with barely enough Vel set into it?s hull to make it float... but it would be enough, it had to be enough. It would be quick to carry them out far enough so that their Arrows would not reach them anymore and be impossible to hit with a catapult due to its size... In just a few hours all of their Oathstones will have recharged so they could return to the Roots in a flash with none the wiser. He saw shemes on the deck of the bark, the others... Lewis, Aditi, Kreios ... everybody was already there and preparing to disembark in a hurry... and they had somethig big in a large bag with them, unlike the passerbyes he knew what it was: The Seed of the End.\n\nOnly a few hundred more meters... he turned his head an looked back. Akantha was vissibly falling behind now and the Knights were closing in on them. He wished he could just tell them the truth, tell them that they were not criminals, that the Seed wasn?t an apocalyptic artefact but something that could save them all... but there was no time. There was no way they would believe him...\n\nClose, so close... They were close enough to hear the loud humm from the bigger docked Airships that intersected the regular ships every so often. Once more Achos turned his head and saw her now panicingly fiddle with her Oathstone... but he could tell it wasn?t ready yet and it wouldn?t be until a few hours from now... only his own had recharged by now.\n\nShe met his eyes with the same embarrased look and smile that she alway had when her clumsiness got the better of her, but this time he knew what she was trying to tell him... she was going to be in Arrow range of the mounted knights well before they would reach the bark. He might barely make it, but she just couldn?t run fast enough, no matter how much she tried.\n\nJust like always... Akantha was always trying so hard, yet she was always falling short of her goals... yet she still decided to belive him, support him... be there on the path to becoming a Paragon, champion of the people.\n\nHe grabbed his own Oathstone in a firm grip to where he could feel his knuckles straining even through the thick leather gloves he was wearing... and then he turned around.\n\nThe surprize in he face more than evident, she could never hide her emotions anyway, but she almost stoped running when she saw Achos turn on his heels. She was grabbed by his gloved hands on her shoulder: was it a desperate embrace in the face of failure?\n\nBut before she could find the breath to ask, she was violenty pulled around by him and pushed into one of the short dead-ends flanking the harbor street and against the back wall.\n\n\"Always a thorn in my side, aren?t you?\", she heard him say and continue: \"Alright, but only this once more, you hear!\"\n\nHe smiled and just like all the times before, she nodded.\n\nShe felt how he took her Oathstone and pushed another object, colder to the touch into her hand... They still breathed heavily as he finally uttered: \"What an outright failure of a Paragon I ended up being, don?t you think so too? Chosen one? The truth is, you mean more to me than the world, I couldn?t possibly go on without you, isn?t that selfish? But do you think I at least made a dashing rogue? Make no mistake, I am sorry that I ask of you that which I would never be capable of myself, but I know you will try, because you are strong... not in battle, but on the inside and I know you will try.\"\n\n\"AIM! FIRE\", she didn?t even hear the knights aproach behind them, having had the fool?s hope they wouldn?t have seen them move into the dead-end... but all she saw now were docents of arrows piercing the guarding body of her greatest hope and affection, hearing his cries in pain, seeing his limps tremple and it was the worst thing she never wanted to imagine.\n\n\"I will wait... make it a long one... or is that selfish too?\", were the last words he managed to gasp before his voice gave out completely.\n\nWith tearful eyes and choked up, she whispered faintly:\"Chikai\"\n\nA flashing light engulfed the dead-end as a single body slumped to the ground and his blood was mixing with the remaining puddles from the rain only a few hours back as the knights moved into the dead-end to look for the escape route of the other one... which they will not find... just a black stone that cracked as it hit the pavement and was devoid of any runes or magical energy whatsoever, forever.\n\n","writing_bbcode_parsed":"His breath was burning all the way from his lungs up to his throat with every breath, but he knew he had to keep running. Step for step, heavy yet feeling as if he was floating over the wet cobblestone road he was moving towards the docks. His heartbeat was drumming in his ears. The fight for the world, the life of everything depended on him, the chosen one surviving and bringing the Seed back to the Roots. Far ahead, against the dark nightsky he could make out a bark: small, wooden and with barely enough Vel set into it?s hull to make it float... but it would be enough, it had to be enough. It would be quick to carry them out far enough so that their Arrows would not reach them anymore and be impossible to hit with a catapult due to its size... In just a few hours all of their Oathstones will have recharged so they could return to the Roots in a flash with none the wiser. He saw shemes on the deck of the bark, the others... Lewis, Aditi, Kreios ... everybody was already there and preparing to disembark in a hurry... and they had somethig big in a large bag with them, unlike the passerbyes he knew what it was: The Seed of the End.
Only a few hundred more meters... he turned his head an looked back. Akantha was vissibly falling behind now and the Knights were closing in on them. He wished he could just tell them the truth, tell them that they were not criminals, that the Seed wasn?t an apocalyptic artefact but something that could save them all... but there was no time. There was no way they would believe him...
Close, so close... They were close enough to hear the loud humm from the bigger docked Airships that intersected the regular ships every so often. Once more Achos turned his head and saw her now panicingly fiddle with her Oathstone... but he could tell it wasn?t ready yet and it wouldn?t be until a few hours from now... only his own had recharged by now.
She met his eyes with the same embarrased look and smile that she alway had when her clumsiness got the better of her, but this time he knew what she was trying to tell him... she was going to be in Arrow range of the mounted knights well before they would reach the bark. He might barely make it, but she just couldn?t run fast enough, no matter how much she tried.
Just like always... Akantha was always trying so hard, yet she was always falling short of her goals... yet she still decided to belive him, support him... be there on the path to becoming a Paragon, champion of the people.
He grabbed his own Oathstone in a firm grip to where he could feel his knuckles straining even through the thick leather gloves he was wearing... and then he turned around.
The surprize in he face more than evident, she could never hide her emotions anyway, but she almost stoped running when she saw Achos turn on his heels. She was grabbed by his gloved hands on her shoulder: was it a desperate embrace in the face of failure?
But before she could find the breath to ask, she was violenty pulled around by him and pushed into one of the short dead-ends flanking the harbor street and against the back wall.
"Always a thorn in my side, aren?t you?", she heard him say and continue: "Alright, but only this once more, you hear!"
He smiled and just like all the times before, she nodded.
She felt how he took her Oathstone and pushed another object, colder to the touch into her hand... They still breathed heavily as he finally uttered: "What an outright failure of a Paragon I ended up being, don?t you think so too? Chosen one? The truth is, you mean more to me than the world, I couldn?t possibly go on without you, isn?t that selfish? But do you think I at least made a dashing rogue? Make no mistake, I am sorry that I ask of you that which I would never be capable of myself, but I know you will try, because you are strong... not in battle, but on the inside and I know you will try."
"AIM! FIRE", she didn?t even hear the knights aproach behind them, having had the fool?s hope they wouldn?t have seen them move into the dead-end... but all she saw now were docents of arrows piercing the guarding body of her greatest hope and affection, hearing his cries in pain, seeing his limps tremple and it was the worst thing she never wanted to imagine.
"I will wait... make it a long one... or is that selfish too?", were the last words he managed to gasp before his voice gave out completely.
With tearful eyes and choked up, she whispered faintly:"Chikai"
A flashing light engulfed the dead-end as a single body slumped to the ground and his blood was mixing with the remaining puddles from the rain only a few hours back as the knights moved into the dead-end to look for the escape route of the other one... which they will not find... just a black stone that cracked as it hit the pavement and was devoid of any runes or magical energy whatsoever, forever.
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