Dauntless sword build1/27/2024 Not that there was anyone he could ask about it. Who were these people? What had he done to deserve their kindness? Didn’t people usually run away from thieves? Celia had only just begun training him, true, but he couldn’t pass for anything other than a bandit’s child.Īnd yet they stayed by his side ever since that day, some of them appearing much more frequently than the others, for whatever reason. Seven ghosts that seemed to watch over him with all the care in the world, much to his confusion. Over the course of the next weeks, he met them. Well, that, and the fact that whoever was in that cave was so much more ghostly, only tugging at him but never actually being able to nudge him an inch. There was a slender hand trying to get him to stand up, its gentleness despite the calloused skin reminding him of his mother’s touch, except that it lacked Celia’s ever-present worry that became a firm grip even when she didn’t mean it to be. It wasn’t the usual cold of the night falling upon Orsterra, nor the unnerving presence of those skeletons and clouds of magic, the only creatures that dared haunt those lonely caverns. “You can’t go, mama!”Ī shiver ran down his spine, startling him. At least, the corpses of her hyena attackers lie on the ground as well, their lives claimed by those tell-tale marks of her familiar dark magic. “No, mama, please!” he whimpered, sobbing loudly by her side, Celia’s eyes long unfocused, having lost their light. Life had a funny way of toying with humans. Hailing from a kingdom far to the west, Celia had run away from home after her sister became corrupted by a promise of power, and it was nothing short of a miracle that she and Therion were still alive, hiding in the empty caves of the Cliftlands where once countless wars had been waged. “In these canyons so barren, our only hope is to run as fast as him, stolen spoils in our bags.”Įven then, he could feel the sadness behind her words. “When all gods turn their backs on us, Aeber will take us in,” his mother used to say. Up until that point, it had always been the two of them against the world, no matter what.Ī mother and her young child, trying to make a way for themselves to live amidst the unforgiving world around them, fortune always as elusive as a cait. Stats: Published: Completed: Words: 44,401 Chapters: 9/9 Comments: 2 Kudos: 23 Bookmarks: 9 Hits: 208 Therion & The Travelers (Octopath Traveler).
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