stay, i pray you / @oskupuki
❝ how can I desert you? how to tell you why? coachman, hold the horses! ❞ duscur is scorched earth. you press a hand to the soil. you can feel the thrum of something here. be it blood. be the souls unresting and screaming. both sides of you colliding here, tears forming in your eyes. it has never been easy to come back here. aunt mercedes and aunt annette had always found it in themselves to bring you to this place as a child but never for long. but here you stand here on the cusp of adulthood. you have to do something. you slam both fists on the ground for a moment. the ground dents beneath you. ❝ stay, i pray you. ❞
❝ let me have a moment, let me say goodbye. ❞ you may not be able to return for years to come. there is too much to do in fodlan. you know you will be back to this place though. back to the tragedy soaked shores. perhaps you are simply too close to the land beneath your fingertips. but the tragedy of duscur is as much about the lives of your people lost as it is about the family that you have lost. ❝ to bridge and river, forest and waterfall. orchard, sea and sky. ❞
❝ harsh, and sweet, and bitter to leave it all. ❞ for the first time you turn your eyes to the setting sun. tears flowing freely now. ❝ i'll bless my homeland till I die ❞