Iromem stares blankly. His vision isn’t quite focused on Lyric. “I… can’t remember. Maybe I died. Maybe I almost died. Then suddenly… this force, it healed my wounds. He fumbled in the pocket of his robes, a pocket he knew was empty. His fingers found a small token of dark iron, like a coin, framing an octagon of cloudy green glass. He stares at it, transfixed, then suddenly fumbles it, spinning on the ground to lay at the other’s feet.
Inkwell shrugs. “Okay.”
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Sanguine heard it. A minion of the astral one, calling out in triumph. He focused on that sound, that sensation, more real than the others, pinned down like a body suffocating under layers and layers and layers of warm cloth. He did the intuitive thing and ripped through the cloth. Suddenly, he found himself blinded by the city. The insolent one leaned against the building that had rejected him, and a new person, a boy, really, stood nearby, smelling of prismite. “Heh. Narration, you called it?” Sanguine licked his lips. “I’ll have your blood too, boy.”