Solar Vortex
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It terrified her. He said her name in a tone of friendliness—as friendly as someone like him could be. She was allowed to linger near him where others would be dismissed. She didn’t want a repeat of the warehouse. Nothing scared her more than recalling what happened that night, but she knew it was her own feral streak of violence that led to it. The same violence she relied on in battle—the violence she would one day use to kill him.
After everything, Asteria should have known better than to continue down that path of violence.
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- Part 1 of Solar Vortex
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There was no point trying to recall. She felt a punctured stinging in the right side of her throat. That was all she needed to know. She was in a cell with no weapons, no means of an escape. It was not going to be as easy as fabricating false orders to break free from the Empire’s embrace once again.
It took a miracle to pull off saving the Scions. Attempting that again with higher security? She wanted to have faith in the ability of her friends, but even she—
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- Part 2 of Solar Vortex
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“I…I know,” Asteria whispered. “I just…wish I…said something else before we got separated. If I knew I would never speak to her again…, I probably would’ve said something more meaningful than ‘be careful.’”
Something in Minfilia’s expression contorted as Hydaelyn spoke, “Do not forget that she is still present even within this form. I know my other child meant more than anything to you…as you did to her, and while I no longer have the strength to separate myself from her,” her other hand reached out to pull Asteria closer by the waist, “Please know that your love, your warmth reaches her even now.”
Sometimes, she wished Minfilia truly died in those tunnels.
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- Part 3 of Solar Vortex
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“You don’t have to apologise,” she cut him off. “Minfilia’s death was hard on all of us. We…none of us dealt with it as normal people would. It was an accident. That’s all there is to it.”
It was an accident because it had to be. Thancred was the first person she ever wilfully shared a bed with, and to look back on all the drunken nights they shared together in Ul’dah under the lens of him being someone capable and willing to hurt her the way that he did was too dizzying to consider.
Asteria follows Thancred into the forest alone.
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- Part 4 of Solar Vortex
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