He was almost beyond human.įor his friend he pledged: he will be remembered, by all left to witness.

The evil he saw in the human was now cleansed, uninfluenced by anything but the amnesiac’s own golden heart. Though tainted by the shadow’s cursed grip, and his own primitive nature, the man was fully redeemed in Ayandra’s eyes. Without him.Ī selfless act amongst the many selfish ones Alexander had driven him to. He chose to sacrifice himself so Alexander could return home.

The human could have stopped him, in multiple ways. He had let Alexander pass through the gate, to the home that Ayandra had spent centuries trying to return to. His friend was instead given the pleas for freedom and mercy from a strange being far beyond him, who he barely knew, alongside the awe of a sublime scientific spectacle. A friend he abandoned to a dark fate with little explanation. Instead, he was granted this privilege, by his dear friend. The pillars needed only a single shove each. Alexander may have shielded himself with a wall of fire, impossible to reach for such a puny human… but that butchered travellers’ locket was so vulnerable. Nothing of such betrayal from the man, whatever was initially planned it was no longer relevant. He did not escape his friend’s clutches or feud a sabotage attempt. Ayandra knew, from the moment he felt the gate lift him as Alexander of Brennenburg, that he did not triumph alone. The agonised wailing from a false ghost, a fake human baron of his own making now forever chained to his soul. Those were the words resonating loudest in his heart.Įchoing into every other thought was the nagging guilt. All this the orb had promised him in its glow, the wished future to be twinkling in the portal's reflective flow.īut he could not think of words to represent such a promised future. He could see the nebula-filled orange skies, kissed pink by the rising of the twin blue stars, the glowing spiral stone spires imbued with neon lights, modern science and life and people, his home, his colleagues, his precious love in his arms. Forever.ĭuring the long seconds it took to travel through the gate, sapphire fire-light twirling around him like a soft breeze on his skin, in his mind's eye he could see the fiery golden sand, feel the soft burning of the grains on his feet. Stats: Published: Words: 1149 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 1 Hits: 14

Originally written around the time Rebirth came out.

Empress very quiet but she probably prefers to be at this point in time.

Was buried in a draft folder the poor thing.

probably very inaccurate lorewise but oh well.Daniel and AoB's Love are really just mentioned rather than being actually present.Alexander of Brennenburg/Alexander of Brennenburg's Love.

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