#while everything below his mid thigh is stuck in cooled magma 》

[first-frost-fallen-snow]

"I... I was a shepherd...?" Derint puzzled over this, not realizing he had clung to Eve. Once again he was fighting himself - anger trying to bubble out of him while fear kept him still.

"Where... no- where'd they go??" He glanced around in a panic, his breath picking up.

"All the souls- they're supposed to be-... no, that's not right.." he didn't know what he was supposed to do anymore.

"My champion! He's supposed to.." once again he was lost. Everything was out of place, and it left him a disoriented mess.

"...Floris! They're so mean to me! I'm supposed to destroy them-... right...?" He couldn't even tell if this one stable fact was true, having to rely on the only person he felt was safe enough to trust.

《 From @first-frost-fallen-snow ! I went for a sort of rescue theme, if that's okay, I figured it would be the most natural way to introduce the two in my world 》

"Oh, hello little one." Frost poked his head into the debris of a recently felled building, the district completely destroyed around it. In a war such as this one, it was often difficult to find survivors. He usually returned home empty handed and sorrowful. But, to his surprise, that wasn't the case today.

"Hold on just a moment, okay? I'm going to get you out of there." He kept his voice calm and soothing as he carefully shifted the rubble, using his ice magic to support the structure so it wouldn't come down as he started digging out an exit.

Eve whimpered, curled in a ball as much as she could. Nothing made sense.

She was small, and there were weird pulsing things inside her (organs, logic said, but that was impossible-). The world was different, unfamiliar, bright and dirty in ways no Grid had ever been. She'd scrambled to hide in a building, and something had brought it crashing down.

Her feathers wouldn't completely go away, a few small pink ones stubbornly threading through her hair.

...and her leg was stuck. Pinned under what used to be a wall.

It hadn't shattered into cubes, but the way it hurt and was leaking a little bit of red (like User life fluid-) was possibly worse.

She barely heard the friendly voice, big pink eyes flashing in the light when she looked up and saw another person. "Hurts." She managed to choke out, pointing at her leg. "Trapped."