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Scarlet Petal
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Glory returned to Suri, but found no trace of Heartsbane.
Several decades after her Ascension a lone, crippled Gour found his way to her tower in what had once been the Desert of Ruin, still wearing one of the masks that his kind had forsaken ages ago.
He knew her as soon as he saw her, although her body and mind had changed. He would often speak to people she could not see, and refer to her by her pre-Ascension name. She did not know why, but she took him in and cared for him, something stirring at the back of her mind, even though all memory of her past life was gone.
He no longer cursed Fate, and laughed with genuine glee when she brought him to the top of her Carapace Tower.
His body and mind continued to fail. She would spend days just sitting in the sunlight, holding him in her arms. As he died in her arms, memories of her mortal life flooded back and she promised him to never forget those moments of weakness and fear that all mortal creatures felt and do her best to be there when the darkness came.
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