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Sylph of Breath

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I took a shaky breath and looked down at my phone.

It was black, with pink rims, as close as I could get it to being my first phone that I asked my first girlfriend out over. Now, I would have my last message to my last friend on my last phone.

I was going to die.

It wasn't anything cruel or horrid, it was the game. I glanced at the red clock in front of me on the cyan stone bed. 30 minutes. How sick did I have to be to kill myself with a time bomb to go along with one of my favorite songs?

Emily Isacutie
lizzy?

How long had it been since anyone had called me that..? Too long, too long.

You
ive been thinking emmy that maybe i was kind of right all along
or just dreadfully wrong
a horrible horrible liar
remember when my fish died

Emily Isacutie
yeah I remember, you seemed pretty shaken up by it. but what do you mean you're a liar..? please don't think so lowly of yourself..

You
im not thinking lowly of myself im thinking very highly!
well i dont just suck at keeping things alive okay
i mean look at our team me and owly have done a damn fine job right???

Emily Isacutie
yeah..i mean, no ones died..except for miomor but we couldnt help that :((

You
Not the point.
im a fucking liar okay
im an excellent liar
my whole ignorance is bliss thing???
its because i was so ignorant of my own self
i dont kill everything emmy
i control it

I felt tears running down my cheeks as I looked down at the symbol on the cold stone bed..a Hero of Breath... Too late, I thought to myself as the bomb went off in a dizzying flash of white light. Too late. I couldn't say '23, 32' one last time, as if it even held that much meaning anymore.

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When I awoke, I looked down at the clothes on my body. Sylph of Breath, I remembered, that was what Trin had called me. Trin and her weird predict-powers. Prophet..? Thinking of my friends and my weird prophecies, didn't Miomor say I was meant to be the Mage of Heart all along? But I..manipulated myself..for whatever reason, into not being one? Whatever.

I stood up on shaky feet and took off into the air, finding with delight that I could fly, really fly. Just like I had in my dreams. Only there was no soft green grass and yellow-blue gradient skies, only cold hard stone caves with crystals lighting the way.

I would change that.

I gathered all the still air around me, much to the surprise of the lizards around me who had watched my ascension, and blew a hole right through the ceiling of dread above me. For the first time in ever, beautiful daylight washed over the caves. Trembling, I flew up, still scared I would fall, and looked around.

My fingers gripping the rim of the hole, I looked at the dense, wooded forest I found myself in, breath bated. It was just like the dream forest I always wanted. I clambered up and walked around, slowly. "So Land of Shade and Smoke.." I placed my hand on a tree, who's trunk appeared to be near black in the shadow of it's leaves. "..wasn't meant to be just a cave system.."

Emily Isacutie
miomor is freaking out like crazy are you okay??????

You
More than okay.
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