I am smiling as I take the winding path down from the mountain fields towards the hamlet, perhaps even whistling. My steps are light, my heart is light...
everything is light. Lighter than I have ever been. It occurs to me that I should be concerned about... something? Someone? Devil if I can remember, and I am not really bothered to try to. Just keep walking homewards...
There is a arbor ahead, right in the center of the path, and someone is there. They look familiar... like I should know them... her? Them... the figure keeps shimmering in my vision, even as I draw nearer. Familiar, yes... Just a few more yards and I'll---
It shoots right through me, the pain in my chest. White hot and sharp. I fall to my knees, clutching it, gasping. "But it hurts there...where I was..." I moan and the fire spreads through me. Not like before, when there was fire, this is different, but it still hurts. The light grows stronger, bleaching the fields and the town and the gate starts to fade from view and I smell apples and stoudt and there's more light and someone laughing and people calling me back as the white overcomes all and ---
I gasp, eyes flying open as my lungs fill with air and my heart thumps hard in my chest. I try to sit up, but it doesn't happen. Finding moving very painful, hell! Breathing is painful but---
Breathing. I wasn't! I was--- Marbas--- Oh God... IAGO!
"Iago?" I croak, trying to move my head at the least. "Iago, you there?" Oh God, answer me!
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everything is light. Lighter than I have ever been. It occurs to me that I should be concerned about... something? Someone? Devil if I can remember, and I am not really bothered to try to. Just keep walking homewards...
There is a arbor ahead, right in the center of the path, and someone is there. They look familiar... like I should know them... her? Them... the figure keeps shimmering in my vision, even as I draw nearer. Familiar, yes... Just a few more yards and I'll---
It shoots right through me, the pain in my chest. White hot and sharp. I fall to my knees, clutching it, gasping. "But it hurts there...where I was..." I moan and the fire spreads through me. Not like before, when there was fire, this is different, but it still hurts. The light grows stronger, bleaching the fields and the town and the gate starts to fade from view and I smell apples and stoudt and there's more light and someone laughing and people calling me back as the white overcomes all and ---
I gasp, eyes flying open as my lungs fill with air and my heart thumps hard in my chest. I try to sit up, but it doesn't happen. Finding moving very painful, hell! Breathing is painful but---
Breathing. I wasn't! I was--- Marbas--- Oh God... IAGO!
"Iago?" I croak, trying to move my head at the least. "Iago, you there?" Oh God, answer me!