Gilt to Rust II

"Gilt to Rust II" is a BOTGD 2 oneshot written on March 11, 2020.
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When Milae blinked his eyes open, everything was white.
He turned around. There was no trace of the wall he had stepped through, nor the village of White Hallows. Everything was quite literally an empty white void.
“Urðr?” he called out. “Skuld?”
No response.
He frowned and did another full rotation, trying to make something out in the distance, but for as much as he squinted, for as far as he tried to look, the landscape was stubbornly blank.
“Hello?”
Milae whirled around again. Someone was standing there that hadn’t been before, a fairly young man in crisp clothes and a dark blue, strangely-shaped coat. He had spectacles perched on a round nose and dark skin with even darker hair. He had his hands tucked behind his back and his head was cocked curiously at Milae. The half-breed got the strangest feeling as their eyes met. “Can I help you?” he asked, casually removing his staff and letting the end of it rest on the pristine white ground next to his hooves.
The man blinked. “Can I help you? I thought…” He pushed a hand through his already-messy hair, looking awed. “Oh, it’s you, then. It’s really you. You’re here.”
“What?”
He took a few steps forward, looking Milae up and down inquisitively. They locked eyes again and the goat was unnerved by the shade of his eyes. The man looked around, just as Milae had a second ago.
“She’s not here,” he mused, looking puzzled. “She didn’t do this.”
“Urðr?”
The man nodded.
“I found a wall made of light.” Milae wasn’t sure why he was explaining what had happened. “Some kind of border. It interacted with my markings, and when I stepped through…I suppose it led me to you.”
The man gave a nervous chuckle, almost startling Milae. “Alright, no, that sounds like something that definitely shouldn’t happen.” He gestured between himself and Milae. “We’re not…um…I’m pretty sure this is going to break something.”
“Well, it did happen, even if it should not have.”
“Why would you walk through it?”
Milae hesitated. “I felt…as though I was in the wrong place, without my knowledge or permission. A step over this boundary seemed that it would have led me back out again.”
“You were curious, huh?” the man challenged. Milae huffed a little and gave a short nod.
“I suppose.”
“Well, either way, you have to get back. I don’t think you’re ready to see me, or hear my story.” The man closed the distance between them and pulled out a strange, flat, glowing device, and quickly tapped it with both his thumbs several times. Milae narrowed his eyes upon seeing a few exposed parts of his wrists, and the strange dark shapes that marked them. “Really, don’t know how you got here…don’t want anyone to find out, I bet I’ll get in trouble…but you know how to leave, buddy.”
“Do I know you?” Milae blurted. All things considered, he wasn’t truly too concerned about what was happening, as it seemed to be far out of his realm of feasible goals he was striving for, but it was still…extremely odd, to say the least.
The man looked up with a faint smile, tucking the object into his pocket. “No. I think you will, someday. It’s an answer you’ll have to live with. Don’t get me wrong, I really…really…want to geek out with you right now, but I can’t. Trust me.”
Milae flared his nostrils in a sigh but nodded once, lifting his hooves, but pausing before activating. “How will you leave this place?”
He shrugged. “I’ll wake up. Don’t worry.”
Dissatisfied but resigned, Milae closed his eyes and vanished. And when he opened his eyes, a pulsing mental shockwave hit him, and he saw blood and heard screaming, and smelled the beginnings of a fire.
Typical.
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The one left behind bent his knees slightly, his hands shooting up to cover his mouth, which was curved up in a huge grin. “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,” he whispered giddily, his feet tapping slightly in place in the middle of the endless white void. He gave a small leap, as though unable to control his legs, and turned around, starting to jog into the distance. “I gotta tell Jin…!”
He suddenly skidded to a stop, his eyes wide and his mouth hanging open. Then he grabbed his head in frustration and shock. “Oh, god dammit! I didn’t ask about the Pariah guy!!” He stamped his foot and whirled back around, but the goat half-breed was long gone.
Typical.
Category:BOTGD 2
Category:Events
Category:Act I
Category:Yun Milae
Category:Yun