Out of the void,
they appeared.
Tanith had not been prepared for the change in scenery at all. She was caught off balance.
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"This is...
where are we? I thought you were going to fix your vision?"
She looked around in awe.
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Llyr's clawed
fingers touched her cheek and pulled her to him.
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"I see you
perfectly."
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"You do." she
could see his eyes focus. They were still black like before, but very
different from those blind eyes of the past months.
She could feel his gaze again.
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"But where
are we and why?"
"This place... is a fragment from my past."
"You made a whole world? Why didn't you do this before?"
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"I didn't have
enough power, and then, when it was given to me I couldn't control it."
He paused, "Don't
get too excited. This is just a fragment, it won't last."
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"But... it's so
real."
She couldn't believe this was just a piece. It sounded and felt large
enough.
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She stopped,
suddenly worried: "What will happen when it disappears?"
Would they go along with it? Would they be pulled into oblivion like how it
happened to everything left in Llyr's world when it dissappeared? Perhaps
that would be for the best...
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"We are
somewhere between worlds, and such places are not uncommon, but they can not
last. The universe will attempt to empty the space again. So, once the walls
are weak enough, it'll flood in and push everything out and back into
existence."
"And us?"
"We'll be pushed back to where we came from."
Tanith was relieved, but she had an uneasy feeling in her gut, tugging at
her insides.
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The Huntress
didn't know much about magics, but she did know that creating something like
this must take tremendous amounts of energy. The uneasiness within her grew.
"Then... one more question: what will happen when you use all the magic
you have?"
"...I will most likely fade
away again. I can not exist without it."
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"Then don't.
Stop using it. This place is amazing, but it wasn't necessary. I could've
kept a lookout and---"
"Tanith, I have to. If I don't let out the excess energy, it'll rip me open and
escape forcefully."
And he'd needed to do something to let out enough to gain use of his eyes
again. Seeing everything everywhere at once was not only incapacitating, but
it also hurt him.
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"But we can't go
back to the same situation. Those two won't do the spell again--"
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"I am not
planning on letting that happen. I'm looking for a balance within myself."
He took a step down.
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"And that's
something that's possible?"
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"I never had
this much power before, and although I used magics for millenia I didn't run
out. That was because I was well-balanced as a being of this world. I do not
see why I couldn't be that way again."
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"Then..." she
dropped to her knees and touched him softly, "I'll help you."
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"But no more new
worlds, alright?"
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