Limbo.
A place where some say they find a new reason to live but are never the same.
Those who have desires that are powerful enough won't be changed by the rough lands and will survive.
Erena looked out the window of a separate airship watching as students fell from within like black rain to coat the crimson earth below. The time had come as her vibrant purple eyes grew dull at the sight of students falling to their deaths without her having the chance to see them, to know if they would have been different.
She closed her eyes, shaking her head as her brown locks obscured her eyes from that reality as she let the feeling sink in: the time had come and she'd have to survive again. The meticulous clicks of the gears comforted her ears. Each tick reminding her of a grand clock, but what did it count down towards?
Her demise?
Her rise?
What?
Her mind grew rampant with such thoughts before resetting at the sight of another group falling from another aircraft. Her ears twitched at the final click; the steel floors of safety blew out plunging her body into the clutches of the air.
Hot air surrounded her body as she descended into the hot fires of the hellscape. Her eyes burned from the wind that assaulted her body that flowed through the air like a leaf carried by the wind. No matter how much she reached out for something nothing came for her. The flames of reiju flickered across her fingertips before dissipating.
It was useless to even try.
Her gaze dulled as she remembered what world she lived in only for an image to flicker through her mind of that same boy. The same boy who she foolishly believed would fulfill their deal.
The name left her lips like an idle prayer to a God that would never come.
"Guisei....Ketsubo."
Yet, on such a day.
"I know you said the protection was mutual but I at least thought you'd be able to get to the ground, dammit!"
His words vibrated through her mind as a force broke through the wind's grasp around her as if enveloped by a chain tethering to the world that she hated. The last thing Erena felt was the wind rushing past her face as she shot towards the earth carefully held within the chain's warmth.
Then everything went dark.
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Testament - Vol 1. RE:BiRTH
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