Aetherial Fragments
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As Long as It Won’t Separate You From Me, I’ll Be Fine by MareenaVee for paraparadigm, SnippetsRUs
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls
13 Oct 2023
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Aubrey flinched when Talvas laid a hand on her arm. Her skin had gone cold as she’d absently kept tracing her tattoos, lost in her horror. The dawn was breaking, the sliver of sunlight creeping up over the horizon, an illusion of warmth. Her breath went shallow and she swayed on her feet. Her vision blurred, sky turning to billowing clouds of stardust, like pigment in water, mauve asteroids floating through an endless ocean—the galaxy she’d been pulled through. Would she have to travel back through that? What would be left for her but a room full of corpses?
Talvas caught her as she listed sideways, all while she kept her eyes locked on the stars and navy sky fading into the gold and pink wash of morning.
“You don’t have to do this,” he said, words gentle despite the tightness in his throat. She could hear it. He was terrified. So was she. They both sank to the stone of the rooftop, heedless of the gathering clouds, of the chill. It was cold enough to end them, both of them, right here, if they stayed too still. Aubrey buried her face in her hands. Had she not already made her choice?Series
- Part 1 of Aetherial Fragments