Gate of Memoirs/Not My War

Phaedra learns what it's like to bear another's burden.
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Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Phaedra: Miell, now!
 	
*The shades grow vicious, tearing at everything they can get their hands on.
 	
*Miell begins channelling her magic, but fails to notice one slinking behind her.
 	
*Phaedra: ...!!
 	
*Phaedra: Ngh!
 	
*Phaedra's mask is knocked from her face as the shade pounces at her, a spitting ball of teeth and claws.
*Immediately after, an ear-splitting crack shatters its corporeal form, reducing it to the dust whence it came.
 	
*And it is then that the man chanced to look into her eyes.
 	
*Behind the steely torment and wild-eyed fury, Phaedra remembered—
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Music: "Land of Giants"	Music: "Land of Giants"
 	
*Warm Voice: Phaedra, my dear. Come here.
*Warm Voice: This is Angahl, and he will serve as your personal guard from today.
*Warm Voice: He may seem a little...scary, but he will protect you. Never go anywhere without him, am I understood?
*Young Phaedra: Y-yes, Father.
*Phaedra gives a curtsy, and looks up at the imposing guard.
*Little did she know Angahl would come to be among her father's best retainers...
*...So much that when the Wolf's Eyes took him away with the rest, they feared the worst.
*For who else would protect the young heiress in these uncertain times?
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*"But it wasn't meant to be..."
*"Before long I too became a part of this war we were never meant to be in."
*"I didn't have time to think about what happened to you or Mother in the capital. There just... wasn't any time."
*"I was in the thick of it, praying each day to leave this accursed place..."
*"But I never saw Angahl again."
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*Angahl's Memory: My lady!
*Angahl's Memory: My lady, where are you?!
*Angahl's Memory: Ugh!
*The burning forest creaked with every falling tree.
*Through the thick smoke, all Angahl could see were the charred outlines of Fae and humans alike.
*Every body he turned over elicited a shuddering breath of fear and no small relief it was not Phaedra.
*Angahl's Memory: Who's there?!
*?: <... ...>
*?: <Vengeance...>
*?: <Suffering...>
*?: <You'll never find her. You'll never leave this place.>
*?: <Curse you, human...>
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Music: "Nothingness"	Music: "Nothingness"
 	
*Angahl: Grr...
 	
*Without warning, Angahl howls in pain, a dark voice choking the air around them.
*It spoke in a malicious tongue, but before the giant disappeared once more into the bowels of the forest, Phaedra heard it in her own mind:
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*?: <We will never forgive you.>
 	
*Miell: Phaedra!
*Miell: You're hurt!
 	
*Phaedra: I'm fine... But Angahl...
*Phaedra: I...I remember now... I remember him.
*Phaedra: I'll explain everything later. I need to go after him!
 	
*Phaedra: This malice... The will of this forest... You can feel it, right?
 	
*Miell: I was hoping it was just something I misheard.
*Miell: I was naive to think the Vale would have let it go.
*Miell: ... ...
 	
*Miell: ...Leave the purification to me.
 	
*Phaedra: Thank you.
 	
*Miell: ... ...
 	
*Miell grips her staff and looks skyward, worry pooling deep in her heart.
 	
*Miell: May the Great Starsage watch over us all...