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Blazing.
Her world burned. Crumbled.
No.
Heat rolling against her back.
I didn’t want this!
Scorching the tears from her cheeks before they could run.
My...
Screaming.
My fault.
The bodies, crushed and torn.
All my fault.
The flames rising further.
I didn’t mean it.
Sobs tearing through her chest like punches.
I was just trying to help.
Small, crumpled, framed against the blazing light behind her. Within her.
I just wanted to make a difference.
Her sibling, tall and powerful, broad shoulders slumped in defeat, something she’d thought impossible, turning away from her.
Don’t go.
The light behind her.
Don’t leave me.
The darkness behind him.
Come back.
The gulf between them.
Come with me...
Tear-streaked eyes lifting to his across that insurmountable gap.
“Garen.”
The searching, lost look in his eyes that twisted into loathing and disgust as he pulled his eyes away. For her or for himself, she’d never know.
“Brother, don’t hate me.”
His silhouette fading into the dark, into the wings of cawing crows, as hers floated up into the light.
Lux closed her eyes as all her colors became white.
The home you can’t return to was never really yours, Little Light.