Shadows swept over the ancient dilapidated building as the cool spring breeze sent chills down her spine. She had wandered through this land, naked and alone, desperately seeking assistance. Clutching a small azure vile to her bosom, her icy hues would dart about the eerily silent establishment. Every now and then, her peripheral vision would play upon her imagination. The shadows of decaying walls seemed to maintain a life of their own, as that blood red sunset filled her surroundings with new levels of menace.
The world was changing. What she used to accept as decency innate to humanity now seemed to be possessed by a select few. What she clutched was far more precious today than it had been in years before. Fifteen generations had come and passed as she remained its sober guardian. Yet only now had she felt such weakness and dread. A monster had been born to this world, one far more determined than those that had maintained dominion in the past. With each passing day he spread his perverse luminance reshaping the shadows that had once defined the world. As for those of us that harbored the true light against him...our fate was far worse.
She would shudder slightly as she looked downwards. Upon her foot, she could feel the slightest tendril of something icy and unnatural. By the time her vision could adjust to make better sense of what was happening, she felt herself being thrust downward towards the earth. Her hand would clutch that vile tightly, protecting it from the fall, but in the process her body would take a large amount of abuse from the stone filled floor.
Taking in a sharp breath she would focus upon that cold substance as it wrapped around her body, as if it was a second skin. She could feel all the warmth exit her body, pain and shock momentarily isolating her from the outside world. As if by instinct, she would open that vile ever so slightly letting some of the substance fall upon the shadow creature. It would rather rapidly withdraw from her form, attempting to remove the substance from its body.
"Come out you scoundrel! You cannot hide behind your little pets forever!" Her voice was melodious, just passion, and rage only adding to the angelic beauty. Resealing that substance she would shudder, feeling her body adjust back to the warmth of the outside world. Her nipples still stood hard and erect, as her long blonde hair would be cast about by the passing winds.
"This is certainly an exercise in futility," echoed that familiar, emotionless voice. It had not been her first meeting with this being, the one they called Venroth. Yet she certainly hoped it would be her last. He would continue; "Now you treacherous bitch, either give me what you guard and I will allow you your freedom, or I will subjugate both you and your precious concoction."
She spat at him, "If you think I would sacrifice an untold number of lives simply to protect my own, than you are far more dense than I gave you credit." She would look into his eyes with transcendent hatred. She could not let this being have what she possessed. If she could not defeat him, than she would at the very least derail his plans. "Stay back or I will destroy it."
He would smile at her shaking his head. "Spoken like a true martyr M'lady Vanessa. If you wish to cling to your zealotry then so be it. It is so much more fun to do it this way anyways." He would take a step forward, yet even as he moved, he watched her hand foolishly erupt in white flame, eradicating the azure colored vile. He would give her a look of disgust. "Fool. There is more than one way to extract the knowledge that I need. You were not only entrusted with the substance itself after all."
And in a cacophony of screams and a flash of that ethereal white he claimed what he needed.
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