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Her eyelids feel heavy now, energy drained and yet still draining away. Mumyo - no, Minami - kneels in front of her once the outpouring of energy comes to a halt. Hide's hearing is overtaken by the closing fog in her mind, but she smiles in reassurance nonetheless. The worry on her partner’s face does not lift. She reads the hunter’s lips, unable to fight the pull of unconsciousness despite the call of her name.
Far to the north, a revenant stirs. The haze of rage and grief clears from his mind for a moment. The land pulses slightly, then fades back into its uneasy hum.
“… Aneue?” He murmurs, though nobody is listening.
The miners’ supervisor shakes his head over the recent complaints. A flute? Here? Nonsense, none of his crew can play the instrument and the nearest village was a fair distance away. The Date had made sure to secure the area anyways. Thieves are common, scrabbling for the gold of the region. Let them ransack the local abandoned temples, it made no difference to him. All that lay there now is more of the dead.
Though… the other “gold” that had been mined… It was beginning to glow brighter recently.
The foreman shakes his head again and lays down.