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Date/Time: 1:07PM to approximately 3:07pm October 24th
Location: The ENTIRE WORLD of Edensphere
Rating: Varied I expect, but let's say R to be safe.
Summary: Edensphere burns. Everyone dies. ...Well, not quite everyone. Warning for large-scale character death and
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The Marketplace suddenly filled with the sounds of screaming people, and a very strange thup sound as some in the crowd suddenly seemed to be wearing very strange--armor. Many did not. Cara was among the latter--but this wasn't a time for her to panic ( ... )
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The bridge he had been standing beside went up almost immediately. River stared at it as it burned, feeling something like an intense prickling underneath his skin, a feeling that he could do something--that if only he could just reach out and shift something, some power in the air or perhaps within him, he could combat this fire, he could defeat it. But it wasn't coming. The feeling remained there, just beneath the surface.
He became aware of someone nearby and turned to see Cara rushing toward him. Others around them wore strange golden suits, but she, like him, was dressed only in ordinary clothes.
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Paladin had overslept that morning, and had to run out the door in order to make it to Medical in time--leaving him time neither for breakfast nor for bringing something with him for lunch. So when his lunch break came, he had jogged down to the marketplace, musing on the irony of his situation leaving him with less time than normal to eat while being hungrier than usual.
He didn't have the time to wonder about the sudden upswing in heat before everything burst into flames.
Everything except him, that is--he found himself staggering inside--inside what must have been some sort of suit of armor. It took him a while to orient himself--between the oppressive heat and chaotic view of what little he could see outside the armor, his world simply refused to make any sort of sense.
But he caught glimpses--there was the fruit stand, roasting and hissing, people flying by, faces distorted in the glass and in their fear, and there--
Two people he knew, two children. Granted, Cara was a guard, and he was sure that, when he was ( ... )
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Looking around wildly, she saw someone in the armor approaching them. "Hey you!" she said. "Can you see the bridge? Is it clear?" The heat pressed in all around her. It was hard to think, hard to breathe--she tried to focus. Get help, get River out. The thought that it was impossible to do so wouldn't get through to her.
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He didn't hear the cracking and snapping of the bough, but he did see River start towards it--and then he saw River become a river and what the boy said about just knowing what was good all made sense. Even in this wretched hell, he could feel the power flowing from him, feel a surge of hope--a dragon could take care of itself, this left him with only Cara to shield. Maybe...maybe...
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He was on his back, winded--the moments before he'd only piece together later, for now, all he had known was something above him, burning; something racing for him, small; then he was down, and he recognized the person above him and blood, blood everywhere--
Inside, though he hated himself for it, anger bubbled up inside him--she was a fool, an utter fool, she had no armor--it should have been him, he could have survived, he was the one in armor, she was only a child--only the tiniest child, he could barely feel the weight of her body on his, what was she doing here--in the fire, in the marketplace, in this abyssal tree in the first place, it should have been him deadHis throat was closed, but the sound he wanted to make rang in the air nonetheless, rage and despair and fear and emotion so raw and animal that a human throat could never give issue to it ( ... )
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