Bitter News

The bleak chill that wrapped her heart was unlike most of the emotions she had ever experienced before. It was numbing, painful, if put to small words but she stood where she was and let it in. Denial had never caused her anything but lingering grief and so, she hid none of herself as she let the truth settle in her head. She had no reason to doubt the words of an Elder of Shadow.

She was alone. Again. And with that thought, the curse that she had thought was mere imagination, arose to blacken her very sight. She had warned Reklah though.

'They all fell to death. All but one, who left.'

The world spun around her, the sounds of people talking, of business going on as usual, but there was no comfort to be found in any of it. She opened her eyes, finding herself still standing within Verminasia's Temple, the curious gaze of the priestess watching her closely. She had no idea what emotion, if any, was plastered upon her face but the priestess turned away abruptly when Nymaya met her gaze.

No one spoke to her as she paced away from the Temple, into the streets, trying to decide upon the warring emotions within herself and if any of themwere truly worthy of her. Would Reklah have wanted vengeance? Acceptance? Had his demise been more than it appeared to be? Should she give in to useless hatred for the God's forsaken paladin who had apparently slain him? Did any of these sentiments really do justice to the devotion she had shared with Reklah?

She thought back to the crazed paladin who had torn out his own eye before her and wondered at her choice of words when she had turned to her companion and expressed that she felt the world would be better off with one less sane paladin amongst it.

Noting her hands were shaking, though she couldn't yet feel much more then a thin current of grief and confusion, she curled her fingers into fists and simply strode away from the city, trying to escape the emptiness it seemed to embody - or perhaps it was the emptiness that yawned inside her that she was trying to outrun.