In the aftermath of a difficult battle, the troops Eirene and her odd hooded and masked colleague are leading attempt to sort out what's going on, only to find out that the battle isn't quite over—one of the enemy leaders ambushes them from below, attacking the one Eirene calls "Doctor."
The enemy leader, codename Skullshatterer, attempts to detonate his caster's staff—and Eirene, determined not to let anyone hurt the Doctor, uses her Arts, impaling Skullshatterer with an black crystalline blade.
He dies, uncompromising and unforgiving, castigating her for fighting against her fellow Infected.
Afterward, the Doctor comes to find Eirene, and asks about how she's feeling. She talks to them relatively candidly—they're clearly someone she trusts. She talks a little about how she doesn't want her power only to be used for hurting others, but that she'll always use her powers for the Doctor's sake, so she doesn't regret it, exactly. What she regrets is not being able to find a better way—it's that it came to this, that she wasn't able to avert the battle in the first place so that they wouldn't have to fight, and so that she wouldn't have to take the life of another Infected.
The Doctor sort of awkwardly reassures her by saying that at least she protected them, and she reassures them in turn that she'll always protect them. However, before they can get too comfortable, they run into some stragglers from the fight, and in the aftermath a familiar face who seems to be another enemy commander ("from Chernobog"?) throws a phone at Eirene and says someone wants to talk to her before throwing a flashbang and getting the hell out of there.
On the other end, there's a young girl's voice, and the sound of people yelling in the background—crying over the dead, trying to triage the wounded. Eirene identifies the speaker as Misha, who is is having some kind of personal breakdown. She talks about how Reunion destroyed her home, but that her family brought it on themselves by letting her younger brother be dragged away for being an Infected, and that she should have protected him back then. Eirene tells her that Skullshatterer is dead, and that she can come back to them now, but Misha says that as an Infected, she sees now that she has to stand on the side of the Infected.
Eirene says she's going to come find Misha, and tries to reassure her, but Misha says that she's made up her mind, and that to stand on the side of the Infected is to be part of Reunion. And then she says she's sorry, and hangs up, leaving Eirene holding the phone.
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MEMORY 6
Date: 2021-10-23 01:51 am (UTC)The enemy leader, codename Skullshatterer, attempts to detonate his caster's staff—and Eirene, determined not to let anyone hurt the Doctor, uses her Arts, impaling Skullshatterer with an black crystalline blade.
He dies, uncompromising and unforgiving, castigating her for fighting against her fellow Infected.
Afterward, the Doctor comes to find Eirene, and asks about how she's feeling. She talks to them relatively candidly—they're clearly someone she trusts. She talks a little about how she doesn't want her power only to be used for hurting others, but that she'll always use her powers for the Doctor's sake, so she doesn't regret it, exactly. What she regrets is not being able to find a better way—it's that it came to this, that she wasn't able to avert the battle in the first place so that they wouldn't have to fight, and so that she wouldn't have to take the life of another Infected.
The Doctor sort of awkwardly reassures her by saying that at least she protected them, and she reassures them in turn that she'll always protect them. However, before they can get too comfortable, they run into some stragglers from the fight, and in the aftermath a familiar face who seems to be another enemy commander ("from Chernobog"?) throws a phone at Eirene and says someone wants to talk to her before throwing a flashbang and getting the hell out of there.
On the other end, there's a young girl's voice, and the sound of people yelling in the background—crying over the dead, trying to triage the wounded. Eirene identifies the speaker as Misha, who is is having some kind of personal breakdown. She talks about how Reunion destroyed her home, but that her family brought it on themselves by letting her younger brother be dragged away for being an Infected, and that she should have protected him back then. Eirene tells her that Skullshatterer is dead, and that she can come back to them now, but Misha says that as an Infected, she sees now that she has to stand on the side of the Infected.
Eirene says she's going to come find Misha, and tries to reassure her, but Misha says that she's made up her mind, and that to stand on the side of the Infected is to be part of Reunion. And then she says she's sorry, and hangs up, leaving Eirene holding the phone.