Echo

[TopRa]

"....Is this how it feels? It's....so peaceful. I feel...so at peace."

"Where am i? Where did everyone go? Am i all alone?"

Admist the Therian mountains would a Drakanite's final breathes be made. Her blood spilt against the snow, the time was nigh for her to meet her final moments alongside the person she once loved. Admist her unconciousness, all she could hear and remember would be that faint echo from her words amongst the darkness. A realization of her past mistakes and sins finally graces her mind. And she'd wonder..

Where did she go wrong?

All she had ever wanted was a place to belong admist the world. A place to fit in and finally be able to be the person she had wanted to be. To make those she cared about proud. And yet? All she could do was find herself nothing but a dragged, bloody corpse on the floor. She'd think about all of those oppurtunties that she could have been a part of. Lost chances to be someone else than what she ultimately became...

Revenge was a fool's game, of course. Leading her down this bloodied, sinful path of agony and pain. It was a reminder of who she really was beneath that facade. A scared, frightened little farm girl who only just wanted to be accepted in the world that had taken so much from her..

Perhaps people would learn of her story, at least. To know that revenge was a path that had only caused pain and suffering. What she'd do to take a different path than what she had did. All she could do now?

Was atone.

"...I-...i'm scared....is anyone there? Please...."

Admist the darkness, a hand reaches out to grasp that of the scared little Drakanite. A soft, gentle palm caresses her own admist this abyss And alas? Another soon follows..

"...It's okay, Hapi...it's all okay now..."

"I'm so proud of you. You came so far, you know? You just have to rest now...it's okay....you did good, you know?"

"M-mom? D-dad? I-is...is that you?"

"You don't have to be afraid anymore, Hapi."

"We're here for you. Now come. We have some catching up to do, don't we?"

The girl smiles as she hears those whispered words. And alas, she'd finally find peace with herself amongst all of the pain she had endured.

As her story ends, hopefully it is known as a lesson for those to follow. And a warning for those so succumbed by a will of revenge and greed. Hopefully, it wasn't a foreboding sign for the Ebonblooded as well. For what might succumb of them if they continue to follow this dark path beneath the shadow of the Ebon Goddess's wings.

Admist this darkness, the Drakanite finally finds that light. The final chapter in her story comes to a close. As short as it was? Perhaps those few moments and memories of happiness was what would make it all worth it.

Until the end of time, and until the end of eternity.

Memento Mori.