[Jonas isn't alone at that funeral. Further away from the shoreline, a shadow displaced from the crowd of Restless — those aligned with the Hierarchy threaded among them like snakes in a den — Sasuke has found a vantage point to watch the ceremony unfold. The burdened atmosphere is familiar, a dark and heavy cloud that follows death, one he has witnessed before in greater quantities, again and again, however the rituals and rites of worlds might differ. Death is death. The loved ones of those slain by the headless rider must be here in the crowd as well, grief a smear of powerful passion enough to beat back Oblivium's tide.
The quiet melancholy comes to an abrupt end as those angry, harrowed spirits peel off from the corpses on the boats, taking flight over the heads of the crowd. Confusion is soon overtaken with alarm and then fear. The sky is already the deep, bruised color of a contusion, but the spirits block out even that last bit of light from twin moons — it's difficult to see the road as the funeral's witnesses begin to scatter in a terrified rush of bodies.
Sasuke moves when he sees what is happening. Leaping into the crowd with the intention to protect innocent civilians from any threat, keen eyes pick out Jonas swiftly for his height and familiar face, and he approaches, appearing suddenly at Jonas' side with preternatural movement.]
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The quiet melancholy comes to an abrupt end as those angry, harrowed spirits peel off from the corpses on the boats, taking flight over the heads of the crowd. Confusion is soon overtaken with alarm and then fear. The sky is already the deep, bruised color of a contusion, but the spirits block out even that last bit of light from twin moons — it's difficult to see the road as the funeral's witnesses begin to scatter in a terrified rush of bodies.
Sasuke moves when he sees what is happening. Leaping into the crowd with the intention to protect innocent civilians from any threat, keen eyes pick out Jonas swiftly for his height and familiar face, and he approaches, appearing suddenly at Jonas' side with preternatural movement.]
You shouldn't stay here. It isn't safe.