[...it was, in a sense. They lost the feeling millimeter by millimeter, slow and agonizing, because they'd continued to fight for every inch of the way. They were not in the spirit of giving up, and they'd not given up, even if it ate at them in a slow creep. It took longer, and for no reason, they know; they could have just as easily closed their dark eyes and let it all fade. The result would have been the same.]
[But it was not in their nature.]
a better world
[One untainted by corruption, and untouched by the Immortal Cell.]
[They pray, in that moment. Petition the jackal, the Storyteller, the wolf goddess with the coat of snow - to any god with the power to hear them - ]
[Never let that corruption touch the people here. Never.]
no subject
[...it was, in a sense. They lost the feeling millimeter by millimeter, slow and agonizing, because they'd continued to fight for every inch of the way. They were not in the spirit of giving up, and they'd not given up, even if it ate at them in a slow creep. It took longer, and for no reason, they know; they could have just as easily closed their dark eyes and let it all fade. The result would have been the same.]
[But it was not in their nature.]
a better world
[One untainted by corruption, and untouched by the Immortal Cell.]
[They pray, in that moment. Petition the jackal, the Storyteller, the wolf goddess with the coat of snow - to any god with the power to hear them - ]
[Never let that corruption touch the people here. Never.]
people are kind