Elidibus Week 2023
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Halmarut paused their recounting of the barely-averted disaster in their Akademia department the prior month. They gave the Emissary a quizzical look. “Forgive me for being so casual,” they said, “but are you alright, Elidibus?”
“Yes, quite,” he said with all the conviction of a boiled noodle, and all the focus of one, too. His gaze was fixed across the room, on a group of three. A pair of men towered over a smaller woman, all of them engaged in what appeared by all accounts to be a lovely and energetic discussion.
Halmarut followed his stare. Upon noticing the object of his attentions, they chortled in delight. “You know, I have it on good authority that if you pine any harder, you’ll turn into a tree.”
At a Convocation staff party hosted on the eve of an eclipse, Elidibus can't keep his eyes on the object of his admiration from across the room.
Formerly titled "she's in the rain." I've taken the individual chapters and re-posted them as their own pieces.
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- Part 1 of Elidibus Week 2023
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“So what is it then? Another test? A warning? A dangling of your schemes in front of my nose so I can get started on my next quest?”
“You paint me with such broad, villainous strokes. I only wish to observe.”
“Show’s over, Ascian.” She smirked. “Unless you plan on watching me sleep.”
Some months after the fall of Lahabrea and his Ultima Weapon, the Warrior of Light D'fhiri Jinh takes time for herself. One night, she receives an unexpected visitor in her inn room, leaving her with more questions than answers.
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- Part 2 of Elidibus Week 2023
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“What did we say about my name?” she murmured, tugging lightly on the silk collar fastened around his neck, pressing her knuckles lightly on his trachea.
“Forgive me, Azem,” he said, cheeks warming. “I misremembered my place.”
“Take care it doesn’t happen again,” she said, grinning wicked.
“Never.”
Elidibus and Azem enjoy an evening together when she returns from one of her trips. Although it starts at a high point, it's quickly laid low as he reflects upon falling in love with her, and she reminds him that she does not feel the same.
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- Part 3 of Elidibus Week 2023
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He could barely recall her laugh, her smile. She had been so long ago, far longer than he had ever expected to live. Not that his memory of her made such a large difference in light of his endless strife towards salvation of the star.
Zodiark ate at the edges of his memory every day, every new refresh gifted by his own soul crystal feeling more and more like a flimsy bandage over a fatal wound. He would bleed out before he clotted.
But he remembered how Azem made him feel — felt it like an echo of an ache in his chest, like a smell long forgotten, the feeling of a day and place he’d never find again.
But this Warrior of Light — she was not like that. Not better or worse, just… different in ways that he noticed, and found himself coming to admire. She was unfiltered sunshine, full of energy and vibrance, all mystery shed in favor of rage.
Elidibus attempts to distract the Warrior of Light away from a formal city-state meeting. He is successful.
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- Part 4 of Elidibus Week 2023