juiceofthevine: (edgin14)
edgin darvis ([personal profile] juiceofthevine) wrote in [community profile] undyingcourt 2024-01-24 03:27 am (UTC)

This isn't right.

[ Except it is right. It's more right than anything has ever felt.

At least for a moment.

And then the Red Wizard comes, running out of the house as Edgin finds himself compelled to run inside. Somehow, he already knows what he'll find. The memory plays out for Xenk to watch. Zia's dead body, and the uncurable wound. Pointing to the secret compartment in the tiles. Kira, a baby, losing her mother and being stuck with only her dad.

It plays exactly like it should, until the memory of it ends and he's left holding this tiny little baby struck with grief and a sense that he has no idea what he's supposed to do.

But he'd...he'd raised Kira with Zia. On the farm. Zia helped him the whole time. Everything was perfect, until it wasn't.

Everything was... ]


I don't...I don't understand.

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