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=== Pt 3: A Parting === ''23,402 — Month of Ashwood — Day 12'' As the final, most remote settlement slid out of memory, over the ridge and into sight, Faie pulled up. “Kara. There. There?” “No Faie, there are no more villages beyond the one in front of us.” Faie’s preternatural eyesight had alighted on a the briefest of silhouettes against the sparse scrub and blasted trees on the slopes beyond. “Wrong. Your feeble human eyes just haven’t seen beyond what your mind expects.” “Then what do your peculiarly superior eyes discern? I will not be delayed by another of your barbaric little snowchaser hunts.” “You are one who so much wants to visit these squalid ground-roosts.” Kara turned back towards the very visible, definitely real frontier settlement at the plateau close above, and began walking. The maybe-village could wait until morning’s first light, giving her time to carry on or double back depending on the veracity of Faie’s claim and the state of things there. “And…” Faie continued with a wry smile, “I hear screams.” Kara’s gaze lingered on Skrymyr’s Endurance even as her body turned to march with urgency towards Faie’s promise. Screams and smoke washed over Kara as swiftly as the darkness, turning what should have been a sparse but pleasant sunset arrival at Skrymyr’s into a frigid nightmare. A frostwolf prowling around the village’s outskirts — a low dirt and ice wall — picked up their scent and bounded towards them. Usually averse to humans, the wolf took a running lunge towards Kara, fangs borrowing the light and colour of the blood moon. Without moving a step, she pivoted and slammed her gauntleted fist into the beast’s flank. The momentum carried it sideways, missing Kara completely, to land at Faie’s feet. The lithe young woman with the red hair looked askance but not without sympathy at the beast, then beseechingly at Kara. “Something wrong with that wolf. They should be human-shy. The whites of her eyes are marbled strangely.” She said. “Not anymore.” Kara replied, arching her crystal-blue sword down, through wolf and snow with equal non-resistance. Faie growled audibly. In the gloom, the snow around the shaggy beast appeared to turn a steaming black. “We go. If these huma-“ Kara interrupted her a fierce stare, “ — these Vanar cannot fend for themselves, they are surely not strong enough for your cause.” “No. We shall intervene and save what we can. The Vanar are a barrier, we cannot permit any more links to fail.” “I will stay here then. Out of your clumsy way. Free of your ugly barrier. ” “Do what you will, Faie-born. Just remember, if you’re outside the barrier, you’re prey.” Kara strode towards the heart of the chaos. What was going on here? Vanar settlements were constantly harried by various daring beasts, but they wouldn’t cause wanton destruction like this even if the defence did fail. Dead Vanar, everywhere. Kara ran through the murk, shouting out for any survivors. A few desperate cries returned. She found a small huddle of Vanar back-to-back in a crude village plaza, desperately repelling a crush of crystal cloakers and frostwolves. Without hesitating to puzzle, Kara slashed her way through to the group. Her ice-horns amplified the moonlight and the remaining warriors were basked in her inspiring presence, surging back into the fight with a new vigour. It bought Kara the time she needed. She concentrated all of her power into the diamond blade of Solstice and slammed it into the ground. A shockwave blasted over the remaining beasts and humans who collapsed alike. Breathing. Kara staggered to one knee. When she rose, Winterblade in hand to finish off the beasts, Faie appeared at her side. “Mercy on the beast-kin.” Kara hesitated, but there was something in Faie’s eyes she hadn’t seen before. “Strange.” Faie observed. Kara looked around by the light of the moon and her still-glowing ice-horns. The air was dense with dust. No — not dust — it felt more like pollen. “Aperion”. Kara gasped. “He’s blooming. And being this close to his power will drive the beasts mad.” “Leave them.” “Fine. But we take the surviving warriors with us to Aperion. They will be the witnesses we need to finally convince the rest of the Vanar. To create a true Vanar nation again.”
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