[ This is the last thing he wanted her to experience. He was there when she was reacting to the psychic scars of the land on the island, and he tried to get her to leave at the time while she suffered. And it was terrible, he knew that from being there himself, but it's not like experiencing the real thing. It's descending on them. Darkness, fear, the chaos of people running and scrambling to escape, but not him. He stayed, wounded and dying, as the infection set in and spread.
There's blood that isn't there and what's worse is there's water that appears below them. It keeps rising. Because the rescue? It didn't actually occur the way people assumed. They tried their best but everyone there nearly drowned, including the rescue party. The water rose and it was dirty, diseased. If it wasn't for the sudden appearance of a turtle, they all would have died. ]
I didn't die.
[ He feels like he is, and he looks like he is, but he knows that he didn't. Istredd puts his hand in hers and their combined starlight brightens up the darkness around them. There was nothing like this in the Pit which means none of this is real. It's not real, he tells himself. The monsters in the walls and ceilings, the vines that dragged people down and strangled them. An endless waking nightmare. ]
River, you need to escape with the others. Go with Kell.
[ His children, he needs to save them both. His brain feels feverish like it did that day, when he couldn't keep awake or conscious for long. Damn, his mind knows this is wrong, but he's fighting against a torrent. In the darkness she may see a symbol, the arcana of the High Priestess, but she has to choose to touch it. ]
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There's blood that isn't there and what's worse is there's water that appears below them. It keeps rising. Because the rescue? It didn't actually occur the way people assumed. They tried their best but everyone there nearly drowned, including the rescue party. The water rose and it was dirty, diseased. If it wasn't for the sudden appearance of a turtle, they all would have died. ]
I didn't die.
[ He feels like he is, and he looks like he is, but he knows that he didn't. Istredd puts his hand in hers and their combined starlight brightens up the darkness around them. There was nothing like this in the Pit which means none of this is real. It's not real, he tells himself. The monsters in the walls and ceilings, the vines that dragged people down and strangled them. An endless waking nightmare. ]
River, you need to escape with the others. Go with Kell.
[ His children, he needs to save them both. His brain feels feverish like it did that day, when he couldn't keep awake or conscious for long. Damn, his mind knows this is wrong, but he's fighting against a torrent. In the darkness she may see a symbol, the arcana of the High Priestess, but she has to choose to touch it. ]