Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-25808351-20170217234150/@comment-28358106-20170220061806

For a few moments, Marcus can see it. Even now, as darkness and evil and hatred have twisted her into something wholly unnatural, he can, for the briefest moments, see the face of a terrified young girl facing her worst fear.

But it is only a moment’s worth. Her scream of fear turns into a scream of rage.

Her cage lurches forward hungrily. The tendrils reach out and grab Conrad. Lifting him into the air, he is pulled into its gaping maw. In his last moments, he looks down into the cage's pit of fire and blades, and tries to close his eyes, expecting to utter a final prayer. He hopes to see her face, to catch a glimpse of the one he has dedicated his life to. Instead, his vision is overrun with the sight of what truly awaits him. It is in that last moment that he understands, finally understands, what he has achieved.

He looks into the abyss, and sees nothing.

The cage closes around him. For several terrible seconds, the mountainside echoes with his screams.

They die down. Cyndwella stands, her face full of rage and sadness. She turns to look at Marcus, her eyes still filled with anguish. She looks at him as if she doesn't recognize him, her vision clouded by her own vitriol.

Then, her expression changes. She looks stunned, as if she's hit by something she cannot see. The enormous cage stops, its tendrils drawing into itself. Its flames die down. Slowly, it begins to shrink.

She watches it happen, then quickly turns to Marcus. She looks different. Gone is her dark visage, her aspects of Vengeance. Gone os the blinding rage that guided her.

With a confused look on her face, she begins to disappear from the bottom up, her body flaking away to ash. She looks at her hands as they, too begin to flake away. She shakes her head, her voice panicked.

"No...no!  I'm not ready to go back!  I didn’t know that this was my task!  Please, wait!  I'm not ready!  I'm not..."

But then she can no longer speak. In a few seconds, she is gone, returned from whence she came...