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The sky was on fire, the hordes of the illithid invaders showed no signs of stopping as Morgan and Karlach ran, separated from Wyll and Shadowheart, they held off the brain monstrosities, as the might of Karlach's blade and Morgan's eldritch powers worked in tandem.
A moment of reprieve came over them, as the two lovers caught their breaths, this, what was almost certainly their last battle together, their last moments on this plane of existence together. For even if they somehow survive this ordeal, Morgan can feel it, Karlach won't. Her heart, her engine is ticking harder than ever and it has maybe hours, maybe minutes left.
The fate of the world is on their shoulders, but even so Morgan collapses, the tears and emotions too much to bear, as she sobs on the floor, Karlach rushes over, "Love, what are you doing? We have to go, find the others and kill this fucking brain!" The tear stained face of Morgan looks back, her eyes dark yellow, she is different, different from anything Karlach has seen before.
"No! I won't let you go!" the otherworldly voice rings out, Morgan seems a woman possessed, if she is just a woman right now. the emotions, similar to what Karlach went through after they killed Gortash, seemed to have awaken whatever has always been inside of Morgan.
Karlach grabbed Morgan, holding her tight in her warm arms, the yellow aura crackles against her skin, as the forces inside of Morgan threaten to erupt, "No! Morgan, come back to me! don't let our last moments be like this, I can't lose you now!" She screamed in pain as she held Morgan, letting the power course through her, but not letting her lover go, just when she thought she could take no more, Morgan's eyes lit up, and went back to normal, the tears still rolling.
"I'm scared Karlach." Morgan cried, breaking down in a way that scared Karlach as well. "So am I love, who knows what is going to happen to us, if we'll even live to see the sun set over the horizon, but fuck me if I'm going to give up now! I don't care if I have another minute of life in me! I will spend that minute fighting, fighting for a world with no more of this bullshit, fighting for a world where the only thing that matters is us! I'll die for you Morgan, no matter what you are becoming, no matter how long I have left, I will die for us!"
The two lovers lips met, their passion a shining light of hope amidst this apocalyptic hellscape that used to be Baldur's gate. Wyll, Shadowheart, and the mind flayer known as Orpheus finally caught up to them in this moment, covered in the remains of whatever abomination they killed. "Good, it's you two, we are almost there, this is it!" Orpheus charges on, as Morgan and Karlach detach, fear in their eyes, but also love, if they die today, at least it will be with each other. Karlach turns but something pulls her back, the yellow aura from Morgan, that grabs Karlach, as Morgan presses her lips to the fiery tiefling once more. "Let's go to hell, love." Morgan says as the group charges on, either towards a fiery death, or to save the realms.