How long had it been...since her ERUPTION?
Days?
Weeks?
...m o n t h s?
Kiana had long since lost track while on the run...
Having to always keep her head down while Shicksal chased after her, The Overseer clearly just wanting his ‘prize’ back...she had to duck and hide, flee as much as she could. Never be in public long. Never show her face... (Never see her friends.) And it...hurt...but she couldn’t face them again. Not after what she had done.
Not after the MONSTER she almost became...
...Himeko died to that...MONSTER...already. No one else.
But commotion would always call her back, Honkai Beasts drawn to a source, and she would always charge in above all else. Damn the stealth, the hiding...damn it all. (She was a Kaslana! And they protected all, no matter the costs!) But when she got to the commotion...to the BEAST that was causing a panic through the small town she had been hiding in for the time, before moving on the next day...she froze.
Pistols trained on the creature, but she recognized it almost instantly.
It was the DRAGON that ‘she’ called to her side...it was HER pet.
❝ Y - You? What are... ❞ Confusion spread through the Valkyrie’s mind, fingers poised on triggers as she directed both weapons towards the Pseudo-Herrscher, eyes narrowed. A single golden eye...practically shimmering with tears, while the other, azure, was dry. (Why am I...about to cry?) Pain wracked her core, and no matter her strength of will...she couldn’t bring herself to pull the triggers.
What was WRONG with her?! (Is it you, Herrscher of the Void?!) Teeth grit as anger started to grow in her core...but she said nothing, and instead stood there, at a stand off with the beast.
Neither able to open fire...nor lower her guns.
A mental CONFLICT with both ‘souls’.
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