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farewell and adieu (to you, ladies of zaun) by pointyclaw
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
08 Dec 2025
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Time taught Ekko that sirens were far more complicated than old dockside warnings. He learned the truth in pieces, in late-night conversations, in whispers traded between sailors too tired to lie anymore. “Sirens,” they called them. Tortured souls the sea refuses to let die. Young girls dragged into the water before they ever had a chance to live, shoved beneath the waves and swallowed whole. They don’t just drown; they’re ripped apart and reshaped, forced to claw their way through currents that break bones and tear voices into screams. They fight, thrashing against a world that wants them quiet and sunken, but the ocean is patient. It hunts them. And when it finally closes its jaws around them, it doesn’t kill them — it keeps them, twisting what’s left into something half-alive and aching to survive. In the end, the sea always claimed its debts.