Why was she saying these things?
These awful things?
These awful lies?
"Eshwlyn, you must understand this, please…" Terra slowly, desperately spoke. More words, more lies. "Lenora now lives a fractured existence. Neither truly dying nor truly living. In death, a soul as fragmented as hers will not be inherited by the Lady Enstar. She will not accept it. So Lenora will live, but just—hollow, as a husk… a broken soul trapped inside a dead shell. And at face value… Eshwlyn, I'm sorry… she's no longer the Lenora we know."
Eshwlyn might have heard only half of Terra's words, with the rest lost to the distant echoes of shock, denial, for the warmth she felt weighing down in her arms, the empty gaze she saw through welling eyes… indeed any moment now it'd rouse, it'd recognize… to her, that was the truth, it had to be the truth.
Anything otherwise… it's all just more lies.
And we are officially done with Eshwlyn's arc, whoooooooooo! Yeah, I know there are still quite a number of things still left unanswered... but rest assured, whatever questions you do have lingering, I'll probably answer somewhere down the line.
Well, your overall thoughts anyone? Aside from being almost illegally long-winded, that is. I'm eager to hear your inputs on this chapter and Ash's backstory overall.
Anyways, goes without saying, but now will be returning back to reality come next chapter, yay! Im sure you guys are missing the rest of the characters something awful, and I'll do my best to give them their fair share of time in the spotlight.
That's all I have to say, I guess. I hope you're all loving this story still, its flaws and all, cause I still have a lot in store.