the rocks, in time, compress your blood to oil, your flesh to coal

Mature | Major Character Death | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)

F/F | for minorthirds | 100 words | 2023-02-06 | the lamb | AO3

Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)/Ashera (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Ashera (Xenoblade Chronicles 3), Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"So that's your husk, eh?"

Eunie nods, attemptedly diffident.

"Shame."

The feigned (strained) calm also aids, then, in staying her head and attached wings from whipping around at Ashera's flickeringly obnoxious choice of wording for comment.

"Not as if Ouroboros were around when this happened to change anything."

"Not what I meant."

Drained as she is, Eunie makes the effort to turn and prompt for Ashera's point.

"This is what I mean when I say I want my death to have meaning."

"The husk itself?"

Ashera's crimson eyes refuse to reflect the motes' rising.

"Beautiful, terrible, disgusting...decomposing, with you."