[ The lingering taste of regret sits on his tongue like illness, bitter and heavy. What he sees of the Hierarchy's final moments are their last flickers of memory, of regret and devotion, of a world of brilliant light and the snuffed embers that follow. His hands are slick with their blood, or perhaps his own?, and it has been ten brief lifetimes of agony. Injuries from that wicked blade, from the bite of the horseman's mount itself, a dark stain near his bottom ribs where muscle and bone has gone gnarled from a blow meant primarily for another -- who better to take it than an unstoppable war god?
The young woman who comes to him touches him with such gentle hands, knowing hands.
Rosy-pink hair. Her opening bid to him that of medical concern -- oh, it takes him a moment, as he lifts his head and looks up at her through a fall of red hair, with equally red eyes, lined as dark as the bruises below them, and really. Really, he takes a long, knowing look at her. ]
I know of you. You're Sakura.
[ He remembers her name. She had been first on the message, faithful to her calling. Jonas had mentioned her too, as a talented healer and medic. Firmly, he holds onto the headless defender -- unwilling to part from his own duty to them, even to have his own injuries attended to. ]
-- first, will you help me with them? I can't rest until they do.
sakura my love...
The young woman who comes to him touches him with such gentle hands, knowing hands.
Rosy-pink hair. Her opening bid to him that of medical concern -- oh, it takes him a moment, as he lifts his head and looks up at her through a fall of red hair, with equally red eyes, lined as dark as the bruises below them, and really. Really, he takes a long, knowing look at her. ]
I know of you. You're Sakura.
[ He remembers her name. She had been first on the message, faithful to her calling. Jonas had mentioned her too, as a talented healer and medic. Firmly, he holds onto the headless defender -- unwilling to part from his own duty to them, even to have his own injuries attended to. ]
-- first, will you help me with them? I can't rest until they do.