wip who-even-knows time is meaningless and i am so tired
thank you to my love calico @k9rage for the wip tag - my apologies, this is so desperately desperately late ๐ตโ๐ซ๐ตโ๐ซ ooh, let's have a look... @epsi-l0n @zozo-01 @thegoldenlittlerose - may we peek behind the curtain?? this is, as always, an open tag - if you're reading this, consider yourself tagged! ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ
under the cut: i think i've mentioned it very briefly before, but i wasn't very specific - we're heading back to the imperium, baby! an au of an au - freelancer, and their terrible, horrible, no-good very bad day ๐คฉ๐คฉ
(CW: blood, death and dead bodies - it's the imperium, so really it's par for the course... this is all happening on the same day as the cataclysm finale, so if that isn't your cup of tea, maybe skip this one!)
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The earth trembles underneath your feet as you run. All you have to do is find Vindemiator.ย
Youโre anticipating the worst. If heโs still conscious, wonderful. If heโs not, Caelum can cloak him, at least until the worst of it is over. Funnily enough, your saving grace is that thereโs almost no way heโs got enough magic left to rift - it means heโs probably still on the Spire grounds, and you still have a chance at finding him.ย
In front of you, the Spire stretches high into the grim sky, all smashed windows and blazing, choking smoke. The smaller, secondary towers havenโt fared much better, and the walkways that join them to the main column are all but skeletal. The surrounding buildings cry blood, the small shapes of what must be bodies lying empty wherever you look.
The Spire gates were beautiful - wrought iron, hundreds of years old, twisting and curling into lovely patterns maybe ten feet tall. Unfortunately, the operative word there is were. Now, theyโre little more than a blasted heap of metal to match the rest of the place. Picking your way through the debris, itโs almostโฆ sad, in a way youโre not sure how to describe.
The end of an era. A hated one, to be sure, but itโs all youโve ever known. Will this burning, brave new world be any better?
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