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August 6 - September 4, 2025
And he cared about none of it, because he was losing the love of his life.
This is the tale of how a fallen one ascends. He does it in countless cascading decisions, over years, over centuries. He does it with the desperation of a starving soul willing to sacrifice anything, everything, for a single chance at redemption. But in the end, he loses her every time.
When I died, it was with my god’s blood on my hands, my lover’s pleas in my ears, and the oblivion of eternal darkness—not eternal dawn—seared into my eyes.
Going on a mission to save the world with my friend’s dead father was not at all what I expected to be doing in death.
Mische Iliae would be remembered by the bones of time itself, and I knew it because I would write her story there with my blood if I had to.
As if the gods had seen some beauty in mortality but failed to realize that the imperfection of it was what made it remarkable.
But I’d know her anywhere. I’d memorized her soul. I’d pressed her final moments into my heart like preserved rose petals.
“Billions of threads,” she murmured, “and not a single one where you say no.”
“Mische Iliae, Dawndrinker or Shadowborn, living or dead, I will never let you go.”
My mouth found hers immediately, like a compass seeking north.
“Forgive me if I’m not exactly eager to throw you out there to go tickle the Shadowborn military to death.”
Faith wasn’t just about a church and a god. It was about your connection to those who shared that belief with you.
I wanted to bury myself before her. I wanted to cut myself open for her, let her take whatever she wanted, and treasure the scars for the rest of my pathetic life.
We entangled ourselves in each other like roots through the earth,
But Saescha had been seeking justice for me.
“I love you,” she whispered. “I love you, Asar Voldari, Warden of Morthryn, king of the underworld, heir of Alarus. I love you, and in this life or the next, worlds mortal or divine, I will never let you go.”
And here, in this twin soul, in this love we built together, I finally found it: Home.
