Erich pauses at the base of the stairs leading up to the ruin and takes a deep breath, letting his bayonet fade away as he prepares to ascend; it’s only been a few days since he was last here, but even now he can tell that there still aren’t any Lost in the area. And …
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Briar keeps an eye on the white wolf as Ren leads them along the cliff, wary about being suddenly reverted into his canine form now that she’s back and watching him; two unexpected changes in such short order is more than enough for him. (He can already feel something odd in his soul, almost like …
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Louis has had a very bad day so far. He and Yakumo had managed to make their way relatively deep into this maze of caverns, and then Yakumo took a blow to the chest and fell from the path, and now there’s nothing to do except to wait and hope that Yakumo can get back …
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Oliver’s met a lot of revenants since he woke up to a destroyed world and never-ending hunger — mostly other young adults like him, frightened and cast adrift and struggling to survive — but this revenant, this Erich, is frankly terrifying. Not terrifying like the bastards who currently own them, a terror born of sharp …
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Erich settles carefully on the edge of the bed and begins unbuckling his boots, fingers absently moving through familiar motions as his mind turns his meeting with the unknown man over and over and over again, wondering if there’s something he could have done, or said, or not done that would have helped— But he …
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Erich’s not sure what draws him to the strange, out of the way ruin; from the outside, it doesn’t seem all that different from anywhere else in the ruined landscape, just one more toppled building amongst many, even if it is far from any other building or structure. There’s nothing that should make it stand …
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Erich jolts awake as a loud shout echoes through their little enclosed space, accompanied by the rhythmic clanking of a ladder dropping into place. “That’s our cue,” Io murmurs as she slowly straightens up, hands flexing and shoulders rolling as she tries to work the stiffness out of her body. Erich grunts in agreement and …
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Pain. Pain-fear-rage-hate-hunger— “Don’t worry, I won’t let you suffer in vain—” A voice. Familiar. Known. Cared for— (Take them.) (Take them, take them, take them!) (Make them belong to us!) No— no, they wouldn’t want that, wouldn’t want to be— to be— (To be what? Ours? They’re already ours and they know it!) (And if …
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Yakumo jolts to his feet the moment he materializes back at base, letting his mask and veil and weapon fade away as he strides down the ramp and makes a beeline straight for the area where Louis should be working, ignoring Davis’ considering gaze and Rin’s puzzled frown as he does. His mouth tastes like …
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Erich settles with a sigh next to the newly refreshed mistle, blankly watching as the bite mark on his hand slowly heals under the mistle’s influence. He flexes his hand, squeezing one last drop of blood from the wound which trickles down his palm and falls, splashing to the dry, dusty ground and soaking in— …
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Erich jolts awake, his heart hammering and a dream lurking just out of reach, and immediately rolls onto his side to curl into a ball. He can’t— he doesn’t understand, doesn’t know what he was dreaming but it still— it still— (It burned, it burned and burned and burned and his teeth ached and he …
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Erich wipes the water from his face with a disgusted grimace then glowers at the tall, gangly Lost as it slowly disperses; he hadn’t quite understood Louis’ clear disinterest in fighting in the Howling Pit, attributing it mostly to the area being flooded and Louis’ abilities being fire-based, but now…? He absolutely understands Louis’ opinion …
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Louis leans against a piece of scrap, contemplating the misty, waterlogged area in front of them; he’s not looking forward to trudging through the morass, and even less to fighting in that morass, but needs must. He’s pretty sure he remembers a Bloodspring out in this direction, and if Erich can revive it — and …
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Kisuke waits until he hears the door to his lab slide closed, then counts to ten before he finally lets himself roll over onto his stomach with a groan. (He really— he really did that, huh?) (He really just clung to Eri— Rerugen all night, didn’t he?) (Fuck, if Rerugen knows Kisuke woke up both …
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Their waiter comes around just as Ichigo is wrapping up his rambling tale of the day’s events, complete with his (entirely justified) complaints about how ridiculously helpless the denizens of Soul Society tend to be despite being powerful warriors in their own right. They’re good people — or, mostly good people, Ichigo isn’t going to …
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