[ Those approaching footsteps quicken and X’rhun does very nearly draw his blade, ready to fend off an attack. It’s good that he doesn’t, however, for when the mystery figure rounds the corner and steps into the torchlight, X’rhun would have dropped it from shock.
Blue eyes meet all too familiar amber ones, and all X’rhun can do for the space of a breath, two breaths, three, is stare. Stare and reel as the foundation shifts beneath him, regret and acceptance upended and threatening to crack and give way. ]
Ardyn?
[ The name tumbles gracelessly from his lips ere he can stop it, ere reality catches up to him and slams its doors down hard. He is lurking in a place rife with voidsent, creatures with terrible powers and not at all above luring men to terrible fates by any means necessary. ]
I swear to the gods, if this is some sort of trick…
[ He’ll be far from amused. Still, there is the smallest seed of hope taken root in his chest, a feeling that wars with logic and confusion. ]
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Blue eyes meet all too familiar amber ones, and all X’rhun can do for the space of a breath, two breaths, three, is stare. Stare and reel as the foundation shifts beneath him, regret and acceptance upended and threatening to crack and give way. ]
Ardyn?
[ The name tumbles gracelessly from his lips ere he can stop it, ere reality catches up to him and slams its doors down hard. He is lurking in a place rife with voidsent, creatures with terrible powers and not at all above luring men to terrible fates by any means necessary. ]
I swear to the gods, if this is some sort of trick…
[ He’ll be far from amused. Still, there is the smallest seed of hope taken root in his chest, a feeling that wars with logic and confusion. ]