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August 9 - August 17, 2025
So death couldn’t have me. But it couldn’t have him either.
The sky beyond the windows flashed purple and orange, a storm of pure magic thrashing against the confines of the Veil as my presence here threatened the stability of it all and in the distance I could hear a clash of blades, a roar of raised voices like someone was fighting beyond these walls, but I couldn’t spare my attention for that.
Stealer of life. Twister of destiny. Beware the cost. Turn from this path. Stop before you unbalance the scales. His ascension will bear a price.
“My soul is his,” I said, my words thick with magic as the declaration became an undeniable truth, like it was written into the fabric of the world just as any other law of nature might be. “My heart is his.”
No. I hadn’t bound us in death. I had bound us in life and those motherfuckers knew it.
They’ve been watching and waiting and hoping for you and Darcy to rise for a long time. And they want to be a part of your army too. Even if only in spirit.”
Our lives are linked and so our souls are bound as one too. If death takes either of us now, it will collect us both and I’m okay with that.”
“Before the stars ever got to have a say in it, I would have picked you for my own,”
“Do you still claim your tattoo has nothing to do with me?”
I yearned to see them so much that I felt like a kid waking up on their birthday, excited to rip into my gifts.
“Let everyone see the mark of the wound which killed me when they meet me on the battlefield. Let my enemies remember that even death can’t defeat me when I come for them.”
Clydinius wished for us all to descend from the heavens, to claim a place upon the earth and walk among the Fae as gods.
“You’re all the same. If you were about fairness, then we wouldn’t have had to go through all of this.” “It is not us who cursed you so,” the stars whispered,
“The version of this memory you perceived within the Memoriae crystal was altered by Queen Avalon Vega generations after this night,” the stars revealed. “For she wished to ensure no Phoenix ever kept the promise made with the fallen star. She wished to pass the power of the Imperial Star down the Vega line to secure their position as royalty forevermore.
“The Imperial Star longs to return to him, but if you keep the promise, you will bring about a plague upon the earth. There shall be no peace, only blight and death. We fear that Clydinius will seek to become the ultimate power of your world, and while he reigns below, we cannot reign above. All shall be lost. All shall fall.”
“Come forth, daughters of the flames, twins of Gemini, wielders of the four Elements. You were born to right this wrong of old, and it is time to keep the promise of your elders.”
When all hope hinges on a promise forged of lies, Beware the threaded minds of blood and chaos. Unlikely friends and broken bonds may shift the tide, Cleave open the walls of the lost in the depths of the unholy night. Unleash the souls tethered in the tainted dark, Unite the rising twelve and toll the bells of fate.