( Later, they'll find most those who had died were laid to final rest in the cleanup from all that currently is cascading toward chaos; later, they'll know the costs were mitigated, with his sending the newly dead away.
For now, it is grim work, and grim command, that sends them turning from their confusion and the anger that follows to a calmer, steady exit, leaving avenues for escape for the living. Leaving avenues of reluctant acceptance for the dead.
The pattern breaks in the morass of time stretching between Lethe's arrival, a dragon on wing, and what occurs below now: one of the behemoth creatures, terrified, has fallen.
Has fallen by the dark, bleak shore of the broken arena floor. Tendrils snake, slither, squirm: there is no avenue safe to retreat, not for the people still trapped by fallen columns and fallen behemoth, the black waters burbling closer. Wei Wuxian twists around, one eye on Jacob. )
Can you convince the living to take hold of that thing once it rises? To get them out over the waters.
( A gesture with his flute, to where a group of people are backed into a corner they don't yet understand is a corner, soon to be cut off from avenues of escape. From their height, he and Jacob can see what those in the burning dusty chaos below cannot. )
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For now, it is grim work, and grim command, that sends them turning from their confusion and the anger that follows to a calmer, steady exit, leaving avenues for escape for the living. Leaving avenues of reluctant acceptance for the dead.
The pattern breaks in the morass of time stretching between Lethe's arrival, a dragon on wing, and what occurs below now: one of the behemoth creatures, terrified, has fallen.
Has fallen by the dark, bleak shore of the broken arena floor. Tendrils snake, slither, squirm: there is no avenue safe to retreat, not for the people still trapped by fallen columns and fallen behemoth, the black waters burbling closer. Wei Wuxian twists around, one eye on Jacob. )
Can you convince the living to take hold of that thing once it rises? To get them out over the waters.
( A gesture with his flute, to where a group of people are backed into a corner they don't yet understand is a corner, soon to be cut off from avenues of escape. From their height, he and Jacob can see what those in the burning dusty chaos below cannot. )