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located in Kizara, a part of The Chronicles of Kizara, one of the many universes on RPG.

Kizara

The denizens of Kizara have a much bigger role to play within the universe than any of them realize. The events that began here, are to be like the butterfly who flapped its wings and caused a tsunami far, far away.

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Gunshot...


Why couldn't she remember? That sound... it wasn't the whirring snap of charging capacitors and slugs breaking the sound barrier that rail guns made. It was a shattering boom that had left her shaken and her ears ringing. The smell of burning accelerant had scorched her nostrils, riding a great plume of smoke.

A powder weapon...


Her suit's barrier should have been more than enough to stop a slug from a powder weapon. Why was this bothering her so much? It was something he'd said right before he pulled the trigger.

Words of power...


Sable remembered the language sounding ancient, and Embers words had resonated with power. The power of his voice had split the sky with great peals of thunder and resonated through the earth. The bullet had carried the weight of his words straight through her. Rune bullet. It wasn't so much what had happened that was bothering her right now as what he had said. The words... they felt so important, but why? Why couldn't she remember the words?

Words.


She was curled up on Embers bed, drifting in and out of consciousness. In a half dream state partially induced by fatigue... partially induced by the drugs Astaroth had given her for the surgery. Laying there, bathed in his scent, she could almost feel him grinning at her. He was always grinning, even when the situation was fucked up beyond all recognition... The grin of supreme confidence that in spite all odds they would succeed. The grin of a psychopath just daring death to try and take him. The grin of a madman who stares into the eyes of mortal danger... and laughs.

Hurt me. Make me bleed.


"Make me bleed," she murmured as she once again drifted into unconsciousness.

In the feasting hall Scarlett looked shaken, most likely from sensory overload. Her mind had trouble processing the visual input. She dreamed in images, sure but having been born blind, the things she dreamed were always distorted by the sounds they made. Even the things she "saw" through pulse-calling were slightly distorted by her preconceptions. The laser-clarity of the vision Gabriel had shown her had just left her in shock. A tear slid down her cheek and hung at the bottom of her chin. She made no move to wipe it clear. Her hands were trembling, but her expression wasn't of sadness. Was it... fright?

Astaroth, who until that moment had been clutching his chest stood up abruptly, sending his chair clattering to the floor. The air about him was nearly aflame with power. A thunderous crack and the smell of ozone followed as he angrily hurled a crimson bolt of lightning from his fingertips and struck the nexus hammer. Gabriel's weapon flew from the table and embedded itself in the wall across the feasting hall. The warp crackled dangerously around Astaroth's clutched fist for a long moment as he seethed, his anger palpable on the air. Scarlett dare not move... she felt his wrath tenfold through their link. She'd only felt this kind of enmity from him once before, when she had been struck down in front of him.

"Astaroth?" Her voice was shaky, and she reached for him but he was instantly cold, all that energy pulsing from him gone. Once again contained he turned from them and began walking towards the hangars. He paused after he had taken a handful of steps but did not turn around.

"Things are askew, Gabriel," he said. The sound of his boots clacked loudly in the silence behind him as he began to walk again.

Scarlett took Gabriel's hand and shook her head to warn him away from doing anything foolish, like running after Astaroth or saying anything. Leo and Mau just kind of watched in stunned silence, and after a moment he just brought his drink to his lips and pretended not to notice anything. They both looked like they felt very awkward. Scarlett waited for Astaroth to clear the feasting hall before she said anything.

"There was one other time he was like this. He thought I'd died... and he did not show the same restraint. I know I can't stop you from pursuing him, but do give him a few minutes to calm down. I imagine he'll be waiting for you someplace familiar where he can gaze out into the void."