Gone.
Like Gellara.
I kill them all.
Kill everything.
I become exactly what Interitus has pretended I am: the city’s villain.I steal what has been stolen from me.Life and love and the brightest light.
The land shrivels and whines, the earth groaning in protest as I take and take and take.
Beneath my feet, the ripples of blackened ash grow wider and wider as I suck the remaining power from the area.Trees fall, buildings crumble, the air trembles.More and more energy surges into my hands and arms and feet and legs.
Bodies desiccate and turn to dust, souls scream as I drink them in.
Interitus is frantic now.Slapping and pulling at the bonds, but she’s restrained by my fury.
“Sister, please… I’m doing this for us.To protect us, to protect our future.To free us.”
But I ignore her, letting my fury surge through the earth, draining more and more mortals, crumbling villages and forests.
I rip everything from everyone in the vicinity.I need enough power to do what must be done.
Interitus must be stopped.
I extract every ounce of energy this realm has to offer.My body swells and throbs until finally, it’s done.
I have enough.
I disconnect from the earth and step forward.
“Architecti, please.Look at what you have done.”She flings her arm out to indicate the devastation.
I don’t care.I know exactly the extent of the damage surrounding us.
Interitus points a finger at me.“You are just like me.You think the humans will tolerate what you’ve done?You’re as bad as me.You’ve massacred as many in mere moments as I’ve taken over eons.”
I grab her by the throat.
“You talk too much.”
“And you are so naive you’ve ended up becoming the thing you feared the most.”
“We.Are.Not.The.Same.”
But of course, she’s right.We are.Cut from the same celestial cells.One angel torn in two.Twin flames torn apart by fate.
Both capable of good and bad.
I squeeze her throat, enjoying the way her skin reddens and blotches.I should take her life, but that would be too swift of a retribution.
I don’t want Interitus dead.
I want her to suffer.To live in agony as I will for the rest of time.
Death will not do that.It’s a kindness I will not offer.
Instead, I will take from her the one thing she desires.Her ability to destroy fate.
