SHRIKE (ETERNALS)

SHRIKE!

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HERE IS A SECRET: Just the idea that she is alive and she is in this world makes me ache.

          So, here's the thing: Saskia (Last name undisclosed) doesn't really know what do with herself.

She has, after all, lived for 7000 years — and that was rounding down. She's been an artist, a pilot, a personal assistant, even dabbled in witchcraft for a century or two! But there's one thing she will always be, the essence of her identity, the very core of her being, a soldier (read: a devoted, formidable, unyielding, thrill-seeking, adrenaline-addicted fighter). And so, at the news of Earth's impending doom, she jumps at the chance of helping out the good guys one more time. Plus, the opportunity to witness her family unwittingly dig up their messy eon-long past and brew over their immortal angst by jumping at each other's throats? She'd never miss it for the world. (She also hasn't seen most of them in centuries but, eh).

The only thing is, she'll have to find the patience (that fate has always destined her to lack regarding this particular person) to co-operate with her age-old nemesis (see figure 2.2., sad-eyed lord of flames and nightmares who always stole her designated pizza slice) . But that's the good thing about time though right? Heals all wounds? Even the multiple knife stabs to the back? (Even the gaping wound from a love-sized arrow to the chest?)

urassaya sperbund        as       SASKIA