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A great chapter, however, this is the point my friend, In a small, short story you taught me what it means to write. Imagine if your frustration had taken over ... I maybe I would never understand.
Another wonderful, if bittersweet, chapter! And onward, once I find a tissue.
It is magnificent of course, like Romeo and Juliette, but it leaves me an emotional wreck!
That being said I LOVED it - you know I love big things with the divines and princes
Poor Darius, sweet lad. Ah well he ... well I read ahead so will comment on that there. It took me a very LONG time to like Fleur but I finally did. Saying that you might think I am sad you killed her. In fact I am rather happy for her - she is safe and secure in the loving embrace of Kynareth and at peace ... which is a lot more than can be said about Rathe. While I am not sure if Fleur is still safe from your pen of mayhem it is probably as safe as any of your characters can get (*looks around nervously and waits for Molag Bal to drag her soul into an undead corpse like Farvats story and has her hunting down Rathe to join her*).
Very well written! Read it twice and still very powerful the second time around!
This is just soul-crushing....Poor Rathe....I have no more words left at all now....
Quickly endorsed. Thank you solemnly for such exquisite and potent angst, Jess and (admittedly-weak) cheers, dear!
Superb Jess.
Seems like I was not mistaken by telling of my nagging suspicions that Fleur would be a goner in previous chapter and you did honor your word of not to kill Rathe. But still this is no happy ending... But I never expected it would be, even though I secretly hoped for it... A long time ago I've even made a mental note to write final speech to fallen Fleur if my suspicions will prove true... now that she has indeed gone, all my speeches are forgotten.
A sad fate she has, her love for Rathe has made her live some perfect moments but in whole it has cost her life... The only thing that gives me some relief is that she ended up at Kynareth's domain, not in Void with Sithis and in Kynareth's domain like in any other domain of the Nine, souls will be returned back to Nirn, so indeed when Fleur is reborn she and Rathe can meet up some day... or he can join her in death, which in fact could also be like happy ending for poor doomed lovers.
In my opinion, if Rathe has died but Fleur ended up pregnant by his child, it would not turn her to next ZuZu while giving her one last good memory of her love, if fact I would have preferred this type of ending, or the one where everyone live happily ever after... However if it was not any child, indeed I think Fleur would have nothing to live for, her soul darkened and consumed by bitterness and malice, until nothing will be left... Rathe due to his stupidity of telling final words to his monster of a sister has almost lost his life and Fleur now has given her life back to him by sacrificing her own. Damned ZuZu has won again, by taking the one whom Rathe has loved most... i wonder if he could move from THAT? It was like in Merlin TV show, for granted life a life must be taken...
By the way, in game lore Kynareth while alone doesn't have power to bring people from the dead, only all of Nine Divines can do that, like they did with their Divine Crusader back in Knights of the Nine addon for Oblivion, saving their champion from death with no price, just in gratitude... And among Daedra the one who can bring people from the dead is only Molag Bal, he can revive any fresh corpse by pulling its soul back to body... but even in such case there is no need to exchange life for a life.
Anyway, as story gone, I think it was a way cruel for Kynareth to offer give Fleur's life for Rathe, while Darius couldn't sacrifice himself or Quin, could he? No, he has to give Fleur's life and live with consequences...
The scene in Kynareth's grove was heartbreaking, poor Rathe could not even touch his love, until she gave her final gift and her final touch... Sad to see such end of epic love after everything they had been through but I guess I should never expect an idea of happily ever after in Rathe's universe. At least they burned Red rose, a good riddance!
I guess the ending means that in time Rathe will move on from his grief? I bet it wouldn't be soon, since right now he really has no one and I wonder what he will do with his life... become a Listener or will travel somewhere els to mourn his loss?