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I feel the blade hit my neck one moment and the next i wake up next to the lake again. I grab my hair and begin pulling. the pain is nothing new i scream all the same in frustration and pain as my neck begins to soar into agony. What comes out should have been a big scream but i can only choke out whimpers as my body shudders, pain kicking up all over.
"c-... c'mon...." i push my body to get up. after a few attempts i manage to get up and hobble over to the lake. its a clear grey from what i can tell. i shudder looking at the water. sometimes my reflection doesn't look right, almost as if its disgusted at me. it should be.
footsteps march behind me and i whip around almost so fast i almost fall over into the water.
"Aw nuts he didn't fall in." one of the townsfolk had walked up to me. he tried to scare me into falling in. rude...
i get up from near the lake and begin trudging my way through the town, children scamper by me the adults passing comments bounce off me like the sand on Kullervo's hold. i feel my mind wander as my body autopilots itself. i think back to what i can remember of previous 'days'.
I remember a lot of impalement. occasionally there's fire maybe a gravity death where they toss me off the edge and i appear in the sky. all those deaths in a vain attempt to escape this place. Duviri stopped being home a long long time ago. lets go over what i know, i know that i cant just take a kaithe and fly into the sky. its an endless loop the sky. storming Thrax's capital building never works he puts me back any time i try, I've searched high and low across every little isle. building whatever these structures are and no exit is in sight.
i distinctly feel myself get grabbed by two Dax. their almost skeletal frames drag me to the courtyard where Lodun waits.
"you've really made his majesty angry this time Drifter."
Lodun says and the way he says drifter makes my own skin crawl with primal fear. i brush it off as he begins to recite what i die too this time.
"for your crimes with the power vested in me i sentence this Vagabond to Death by-"
"death by impaaalement..."
i say mocking Lodun. i zone back out as he reprimands me for mocking his righteous duty. as he's talking i feel something slam into me.
"you cannot kill the devil. but you can send them back to hell."
the ghostly voice says as the blade disappears. i check my chest and sure enough no stab mark. i look up and the Dax are just as confused as i am. i turn around and i see what they were confused at.
"ah y-yes even better DEATH BY METEOR!"
i jump out of the way as the meteor slams directly Infront of Lodun where i once sat. in the crater lays a hand. a humanoid hand sure but my definition on humanoid barely qualifies. i reach out to touch it out of curiosity when all of a sudden tendrils shoot from it embedding itself into my hand.
"Gah!"
the hand clamps harder on my hand and then slams down on my hand. i feel my hand split into two and the pain ramps up. i hold my new hand in agony for a moment before a light emerges from it and to the Daxs gun. I head to the gun and as i grab it i begin to zone out for what feels like another loop.