Redemption and Regret; Remembrance and Revival

[Little Rose]

Cassandra had been so out of it when she’d been traveling with her fri- Associates. So now that she was trying to retrace her steps she found it extremely difficult. When they stood, she glanced around trying to remember which gateway she’d gone through with the big group. Surely someone had seen them as they passed through only a few hours ago.

Though Myst was underestimating how much time had passed through this verse, she knew she had to be wrong. She wished she had a clock now that she thought about it.

It was then that they overheard someone’s approach. It sounded like metal and leather. Too small for a horse, but just right for the size of a man she knew. Her heart swelled with unwarranted hope for who she would see as she turned on her slippered toes. “Dane!?” She cried out with relief mixed with a bit of happiness. Only for disappointment to flood into her veins not to find him but some other warrior. A man with shield and spear.

His voice was kind and polite enough, but it only left her depressed and worried. "Monsieur Omni? Non." She lowered in mood and stance. The girl's shorter brown hair fell like curtains around her heart. She grieved for a moment before pushing both sides back behind her ears and rubbing her tears away again. "I am sorry sir, but Je ne suis pas. Ze only people I know are lost to me."

"I understand, forgive me. A S'wit I am if I am not a burden to you anymore, but one of you must know something of this place. I must get back to Tamriel, I must aid my people and stop the Oblivion Crisis."

Kaleigh, determined to keep things in light despite the sudden dip in mood from her new companion. Obviously, she was the hero Cassandra needed. She took her position, hands on her hips and facing this newcomer. “Not one thing!” She said, triumphantly and confidently.

This left Kolvo feeling a bit on edge, but breathing a bit easier as she announced she knew nothing.

“Nous vous in the Omniverse,” Myst said, lifting up just a bit. “We are in ze Nexus. It is apparently where you are brought after death comes to you. Ze gates.” She paused, to point at the dots in the distance. “Zey take you to other Mondes. I went to a jungle and met Dane there. And then we went to a town where there iz a large beast they want to hunt. I died sa- I hope I died saving mon amies. If they died as well, I cannot live with myself.” She lowered her finger sadly.

Kolvo and Kaleigh eyed each other as she dropped like a wilting flower.

“Je ne suis pas past that,” Myst said, curling her arms around herself, her tears returning. Her feet overlapped one another. What was she going to do?