what the snow hides shall never be found
The blade presses deeper into her breast - your breast - and twists. The pain is intense, a sharp and jagged thing that goes beyond the physical and pierces your very soul. You remember them all, and you feel them all: the lives your bore into this world, the babes your held tight in your arms.
The children you lost to time and space and disease and monsters and the cold and the dark.
In a tidal wave of agony you can feel every one of them, each loss magnified and intensified in those green, green hellfire eyes and the beating of your broken heart.
The unicorn exhales a final breath, and you feel it in your lungs. You must kill the past to find the future, Hotaru. Only then can you be everything he needs. Everything you are.
And then the hellfire eyes grow dim. The unicorn - the Valkyrie - is dead.
But you, Hotaru, are still alive. And in your soul a new life blossoms, taking residence in the recesses so long occupied by ghosts. The foal is yours now, your soulmate, your child. The past is gone, but your future is waiting. And you will never be alone again.
Congratulations! Hotaru has received a unicorn companion! (Brit paid MP for this)
The children you lost to time and space and disease and monsters and the cold and the dark.
In a tidal wave of agony you can feel every one of them, each loss magnified and intensified in those green, green hellfire eyes and the beating of your broken heart.
The unicorn exhales a final breath, and you feel it in your lungs. You must kill the past to find the future, Hotaru. Only then can you be everything he needs. Everything you are.
And then the hellfire eyes grow dim. The unicorn - the Valkyrie - is dead.
But you, Hotaru, are still alive. And in your soul a new life blossoms, taking residence in the recesses so long occupied by ghosts. The foal is yours now, your soulmate, your child. The past is gone, but your future is waiting. And you will never be alone again.
Congratulations! Hotaru has received a unicorn companion! (Brit paid MP for this)
