Indeed, they appear to be snowdrops, sprouting here and there at the bases of the crumbling bridges, and then more and more frequently as you head towards the center of the moonlit clearing, until the ground is almost blanketed in white.
And there, sitting on a toppled stone by the largest of the pools of water, is a woman with pale skin, night-dark hair, and a distant, sorrowful expression. She is looking up at the stars.
Leli's movements are almost languid as she turns, eventually looking down at you from her perch. Something about her looks... wounded, somehow, though you would be hard-pressed to name which part of her is actually hurt.
".....Why are you... here?"
It's that same delicate voice from the memory of shattering.
The fallen angel's brows furrow (though that expression, too, looks almost fragile on her).
"Scars are proof of survival. She is one... who can survive being broken—usually."
Another thing you realize, about Leli: even if you were in a dark and empty time, a hurting time, a ruined and compromised time in your life; even if you understood one day that you had failed, that you had wasted yourself and your opportunities—even then, she would always be with you. Whether or not you wanted her to be.
"But right now... she does not have every fragment. She is not...whole."
"What is broken is never remade exactly as it once was. I am not... what I once was. "But none are less worthy for having been changed, or having been broken. We are all... impure, and beloved."
A pause. "...Yet there is hole in the heart of Kiri, Temptation of Angels, Cut Through All Foes. In that emptiness, there is only... 𝓝ot."
Once again, there is that strange sense of her voice being overlaid with another's.
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she tucks some hair a little more out of her face, and looks toward Leli—and then nods to Quentin. ]
Thank you. I think I will do that, in fact.
[ and: onward ]
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And there, sitting on a toppled stone by the largest of the pools of water, is a woman with pale skin, night-dark hair, and a distant, sorrowful expression. She is looking up at the stars.
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[ just gonna shove down all the discomfort about the fact that she's talking to a fallen angel,
like she's already in hell. it can't get worse, technically. ]
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".....Why are you... here?"
It's that same delicate voice from the memory of shattering.
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...that's a very good question. For Hellfire. Kiri, that is.
She seems to be having a bit of a crisis, to be frank.
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"Scars are proof of survival. She is one... who can survive being broken—usually."
Another thing you realize, about Leli: even if you were in a dark and empty time, a hurting time, a ruined and compromised time in your life; even if you understood one day that you had failed, that you had wasted yourself and your opportunities—even then, she would always be with you. Whether or not you wanted her to be.
"But right now... she does not have every fragment. She is not...whole."
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[ that's. uncomfortable, in a way, maybe because...
...well, should a fallen angel feel like what God is supposed to be? ]
...what is she missing, then?
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She looks at you again. "But it cannot exist here."
At the base of the stone, another snowdrop pushes up through the soil.
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The sort of thing that can't be remade quite the same way again, then.
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"But none are less worthy for having been changed, or having been broken. We are all... impure, and beloved."
A pause. "...Yet there is hole in the heart of Kiri, Temptation of Angels, Cut Through All Foes. In that emptiness, there is only... 𝓝ot."
Once again, there is that strange sense of her voice being overlaid with another's.
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Which is to say—as that gentleman over there told me—that which lies outside Creation, which would destroy the world.
...I'd imagine that's hard, for someone who has such wholehearted enthusiasm for everyone and everything she encounters.
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