who stole your heart and the key?

[steelmyself]

In the dark, you taste something sweet and tart on your tongue, almost like apple but not quite: pomegranate juice, out of nowhere. A hint of something metallic accompanies it.

You fall down.

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Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

She's barely a woman--little more than a girl. But she is pretty. She wears her long black hair half down and half in two tails at the sides of her head. It's hard to make out exactly what she's wearing--her long gown glints and glitters as if lit by stars, but there are no stars here.

She keeps her head up, trying to gaze above the flames, but tears glitter in her eyes. "Hello...? You came to Hell too."

What she's sitting on is not, in fact, just junk. It's a pile of seven swords, somehow arranged so they can be safely sat upon.

Re: THE FLAMES

[lonelydemon]

Yeah, I guess I did. Hello.

Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

She sniffles a little, trying not to cry. "You should leave. No one deserves to be here."

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[lonelydemon]

What about you?

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[steelmyself]

"It can't be helped. He couldn't save me."

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[lonelydemon]

...I'll go if you come with me.

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[steelmyself]

She hesitates. "Come with you?"

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[lonelydemon]

Away from this place.

Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

She shakes her head and shifts awkwardly on the swords she sits on. "I can't save myself, of course."

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[lonelydemon]

No? Why is that?

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[steelmyself]

"That's wrong. Saving...it has to be done by other people."

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[lonelydemon]

...Then I'll do my best.

[extends his hand.]

Come with me.

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[steelmyself]

She looks at him in astonishment. "But how will you protect me from the flames?"

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[lonelydemon]

One moment.

[takes off his cloak, drawing a magic circle in the air over it and-]

What I seek is the water cloud, Mizui!

[drenching it with a torrent of water, before picking it up and offering it to her.]

Re: THE FLAMES

[steelmyself]

The water is weak, and it only makes the cloak damp. Still, it's better than nothing, and she hesitantly takes it while coming gingerly down from her seat of swords. "You're a magus too?"

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[lonelydemon]

I'm a Caster, actually.

[reaches to tug the cloak around her firmly, not wanting her at all exposed to the flames.]

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[steelmyself]

She looks up at him warily. "I already had a Servant. He wasn't good enough."

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[lonelydemon]

I didn't promise I'd succeed.

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[steelmyself]

"Then...what will you do? To get us out of here."

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[lonelydemon]

Do you know what's further along?

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[steelmyself]

She lowers her gaze a little. "The final circles of Hell, of course--and--"

She hesitates.

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[lonelydemon]

And?

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[steelmyself]

"The traitor's in the final circle, isn't he?"

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[lonelydemon]

...Yeah. Probably.

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[steelmyself]

"There's no escaping, for him." She sounds a bit sad.