Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-35738644-20190925121501/@comment-192.99.110.151-20190925154333

"Oh my...what could possibly have happened here?"  A voice hits the two from the door leading downstairs. A figure stands, blotting out the light from the frame.



The woman in dark pigment and pointed ears ceases in her wailing. Her fingerless gloves and outfit, long stained by remorseful tears remain as black as the day they were manufactured. A mirror to the figure that stands in the doorframe, slowly walking down, moving away from said light.



"It seems someone is in dire need of help here..."  The man continues the slow pace, slowly walk downward until his height was only barely higher than that of the elven of the dark and much more than the shriveled man, absent of muscle and will.



"Eh? Hah?" Her voice is still slurred by the abundance of tears still striking the ground, blurring the sight of the entity standing before her and him.



"And I do say, you really need help, are you?" <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> The man remains unmoved, seemingly waiting for the white-haired woman to cease her sobs as he crosses his hands.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Hah? Yes...yes, we...we do..." One of her hands comes brushing leftover tears from the pristine visage of a monster, allowing her a greater look to the interloper.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Darkness cloaks his hands and shoulders, leaving but a sliver of silver adorning his chest and likely, legs. Silver armor underneath the black.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">But looking at his face, she can't truly decipher anything. No humanity to look for. Nothing more than the darkness of the hood surrounded by what looks to be a crown of silver.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Briefly forgetting her woes for but a moment, the dark elf squints her eyes, the violet tide in her irises honing on the hidden face that lies behind the hood. But, nothing comes back. Nothing more than the increasing headache blurring her sights the more she looked at it.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">She shakes her head off it, turned to the shriveled man with a bit of shock. His empty expression, devoid of light, devoid of life, now murmured with something within.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Someone else was before him, someone human, like him. The days she tried spurning any life in his psyche and now, he was looking back to the man. Intently.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">A spec of hope glimmers in her wailing soul, turning her back to the man with an uncharacteristic plight in her tone "He's already...Randy is already...!" A defiant smile comes chording her once wailing demeanor as he approaches the trembling man, unable to stand, yet making the most of his broken body to look up to the shrouded individual.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Silver hands come cupping his visage from both sides, seemingly helping his standing as a faint glimmer begins shimmering from the silver.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"You're...what are you...what are you doing?" The glow from his armored hands brings somewhat of a worry to the dark elf, though the hope ushered in by her 'husband' overpowers it.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Do not worry, you shall be well soon" <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> The man looks deep to broken Randy, the latter feeling time freezing in place. Everything takes a hint of gray, devoid of the colors that walk in harmony with the present. The walls, the light, the dark elf. All are gray.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Save for him and the man in black. Close to his tormentor, but she couldn't hear him. Not anymore. Free to speak his mind, he looks again to the stranger. His eyes are rotten with misery by the hopelessness that inhabited him for days.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Randy..." <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> the hooded man speaks, a voice, gentle to the shriveled man  <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"I've heard your plight. I am here now"

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Are...are...you...death? Have I...been...answered...?" Every word he speaks brings pain to his throat, suffering that persisted for days.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">His lightless eyes witness the purple gaze returned from the confines of the hood. Power flies from the pours of Randy's face to the man's hand, a gem now floating between them. His force, whatever remains of it, flushes from his body, eager to leave the sanctuary of life.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Ohh, poor you. A proud man now made unto this for so long. The nectar of the past eludes you. The present is shackled from you. And your future is indeed bleak..." <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> Randy feels every shred of himself being scanned and observed by the stranger His past and present. The hell he was dipped in. The release he sought since.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"But, I am here now, Randy. I am the guide that will usher you to your people. Your guide to the release of the resting. This creature will never hurt you again". More life flows from Randy's cheeks.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Randy claps his hands on the stranger's arms "Yes...! Please...! Release me! Bring me...to my...resting place! Please---" His eyes lose the last shrivel of light they held on, as life moves apart from his withered body.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Time flows again, his entire psyche now embedded in the amethyst gem. His hands move from the now-deceased Randy, no longer held by anything. His body crumbles downward, unceremonious.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">All under the dark elf's hopeful stare turned to abject horror "RANDY!!!!" She falls to her knees, quick to cup his lifeless head "Randy! Randy, wake up! Wake up, please! I'm sorry, Randy, I'm sorry! Here, look, I've brought you your favorite!"

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">The stranger looks down on the dark elf forcing the corpse's mouth open, only to fill with a piece of chocolate. A piece he used to adore back in his childhood "Randy! You like it, right, Randy? Randy? Randy..."

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Her voice cracks with tears. Her hands cradle his lifeless head, his dead eyes stained by her ducks "Randy...you...you monster! You fiend!" Her face turns to a scowling glare toward the man still looking from a distance "You killed him...you killed him! You said you were going to help us! And yet, you..."

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"I did help...him"

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"What?" Her hand trembles, precarious of his next words coming in accusation.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">I helped him...from you"  <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">The man squalls to their height, looking solely at the elf  <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"I didn't kill him. I only relinquished a corpse that didn't know it was dead. No, I didn't kill him... <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">you did <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">" <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"No, I didn't..." Her hand shimmers, grasping a whip that wasn't here before, armed and poised "I did not kill him!"

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">A lash comes down on the stranger "I loved him! I loved him and you took him away from me! You took him--" Her hand feels the empty weight of wind from a missed lash.

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">He was no longer in her striking range, already at the top of the stairs, moving in the midst of her outrage attack in speed she couldn't comprehend.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">He turns from the light back to her, a devil in man's clothing. His shadow, concealed in a sickly purple  <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"You killed him..."

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"No..."

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"You killed him..."

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">No".

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Killed him..."

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"No!"

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Killed him...Killed him..."

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Stop!"

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Killed him...Killed him...Killed him..."

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Stop it! Stop it right now!" Her hands blot her ears as ethereal voices begin whispering the same two words, over and over. A storm of shout to her.

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him...Killed him..."

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<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">"STOP IT!!!!" Her shout turns to a full-blown sobbing, still tormented by the voices swirling invisibly around her "I didn't...he killed him...I just...wanted..."

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;">

<p style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">Her bod crumbles to a fetus position, sorrow, and lament fed into her. All under the stranger's gaze. A harrowingly delighted gaze from the stranger  <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">" <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">You killed him. I just gave him the...incentive to die... <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true">" <span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 41); background: transparent; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;;" data-preserver-spaces="true"> His shape disappears, leaving the dark elf wailing...broken, beyond broken, her only love...gone...by a stranger. Forever...