Gate of Memoirs/The Two-Headed Snake

The poison of revenge stays in her blood forever.
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Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Baelfyr: Kh...
*Baelfyr, his body broken and pinned to the ground by a raging Zeruiah,
*could only stare defiantly into her furious red eyes.
 	
*Baelfyr: The Wolf's Eyes will never stop!
*Baelfyr: We will chase them to the ends of this miserable world.
*Baelfyr: This curse on my wretched race, I lay with my life!
*Baelfyr: And I will see it through to the very end.
*Baelfyr: I will stand upon these ruins to watch us all fade into NOTHING!
 	
*Zeruiah: SILENCE!
*Zeruiah: You have angered me for the last time!
*Zeruiah: By the wrath of Earth Mother and Sky Father...
*Zeruiah: Your time, human...is nigh!
 	
*The first sickening crunch of bone was accompanied by a pained howl.
*The second tore flesh and a bloodied gurgle from a gaping wound.
*As the glaive withdraws entirely from Baelfyr's body, he falls.
*Unmoving. Unblinking.
*The final legacy of a forgotten house, its last life snuffed out by charnel winds.
 	
*The wrath subsides from Zeruiah's face almost immediately as the corpse comes to a rest at her feet.
*All around her, the embers of Baelfyr's conquest begin to die out, leaving only dust, ash, and the nauseating stench of blood.
 	
*The Starsage had abandoned the last vestiges of her morality to put a living creature to death.
*Baelfyr's countless atrocities against the Vale was enough to mark him as an enemy of life;
*but Zeruiah herself, a sworn defender born of the collective wills of the Fae,
*was now tainted with the indelible stain of cruel slaughter.
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Music: "Cordelica"	Music: "Cordelica"
 	
*Eirwen: Mother, I'll be fine.
*Eirwen: I'm one of them, you see? I've always been.
*Eirwen: It'll be easier for them to understand.
*Eirwen: Not all humans are thieving, conniving bandits.
 	
*Zeruiah: If you insist.
 	
*Eirwen: Mother...
*Eirwen: Do you not trust them?
 	
*Zeruiah: You must understand that we have had tenuous relationships with the humans for thousands of years.
*Zeruiah: We prevent them from entering at best, and leave their frozen corpses in the mountains at worst.
 	
*Eirwen: But you didn't chase me away from the Vale when I stumbled into it as a tiny girl.
 	
*Zeruiah: That's...
 	
*Eirwen: Different? Oh, Mother dearest.
*Eirwen places her hands in Zeruiah's, warm and reassuring.
*Eirwen: Give them a chance like you did me.
*Eirwen: Deep inside, no one on Aimyhr wants war or conflict.
*Eirwen: But without communicating that to each other, our hearts are isolated.
 	
*Zeruiah: ... ...
 	
*Zeruiah: I am proud of you, Eirwen.
*Zeruiah: You have taught me much.
 	
*Eirwen: What about?
 	
*Zeruiah holds her foster daughter close and kisses her on her forehead.
*Zeruiah: Foremost among them...love.
 	
*Eirwen: Hehe.
*Eirwen: I promise you, Mother.
*Eirwen: Humans aren't so different from us—from you, or the Fae.
*Eirwen: We all need a place to belong...
*Eirwen: To feel wanted and loved.
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*Zeruiah: Eir...wen...
*Zeruiah: I...
 	
*Zeruiah's glaive clatters to the ground as she stumbles back from the carnage she had wrought.
*Every whisper in the wind was like a thousand voices sighing in sorrow.
 	
*Zeruiah: What...
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*Zeruiah: Have I done?
*Zeruiah, Zeruiah
*Pity the Starsage,
*Lost among the ashes of death!
*Blinded by hate, wrought by her hand
*A fate unseen by Fae nor ManThe Starsage has fallen
*To whom belongs
*the howl in the wind?