Ashes of Vile

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CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE
Vermithis Ashgrim

Cassidy was the only living person in all of Ashgrim and the outside walls to know the real Vermithis Ashgrim. She was no god, but she was no ordinary human. She was like Cassidy Idgen, greater and wiser. She held all of Vermithis' memories, and unluckily for the two, msot of them were pain and a never ending battle for glory. There have been many narratives of Vermithis Ashgrim. Lots of false narratives that people blindly choose to go along with; And the frustration was how she was associated are perceived to be one of them. To unseeingly side with the so-called bad side also known as Vermithis. But there was no greater frustration than being someone who actually has heard her story, and decided that it's one worth fighting for. Cassidy's perspectives changed greatly, and all she had was respect for the life Vermithis had lived.

She had known the truth. Vermithis loved no one. Sawile Vile loved her, but she wasn't loved back, not in the way she wanted her to. Vermithis loved everyone, Este Idgen, Betty Blaque, Sawile Vile, Rebekah Vimgard, and her greatest friend: Diana Pierce. However, the mountains of such love fell, Sawile Vile being the first to betray the great withholder of the source. Sawile married a man to become a Vile, one of the top leading political dynasties of the old times. She did not love the man the way she loved Vermithis, and the greed for power and lust had pushed her to the edge of madness. After Vermithis and her presence being the sole cause of creatures to walk the earth had been revealed to the public, Sawile Vile was forced to join the hunt for the woman she loved.

Slowly by slowly, each friend of hers joined the rest of the world against her. She was painted out to be a villain, and despite all the love she had showered them, they still took advantage of it. Este Idgen, bearing a child of her blood, not respecting her many protests of using such solution. Betty Blaque, knowing her own family line and their abilities, used Vermithis' source to her advantage to acquire her ability to raise the dead. Sawile Vile, raising armies against her. Rebekah Vimgard, creating a clan on her own, leaving Vermithis in the war to create her own power, and Diana Pierce: the greatest betrayal, dying and leaving Vermithis to scour the world of greed and darkness all on her own. In the end, Vermithis was all alone. Her body all alone outside the walls of a new built world. Ashgrim was built to shield itself from the creatures, however during the process, they tried so hard. To find Vermithis Ashgrim and squeeze her dry of her power. They were determined to make something greater out of it, to make something greater of the creatures. To bid them to their will and have even more power than they can muster.

But Vermithis Ashgrim refused, even if that meant being with the creatures that hated her just as much as it hated human beings. People wouldn't believe her, they had believed her to be the mother of such monstrosity. But she was just a poor girl caught in a crossfire with a power she never wanted.

History repeats itself. Cassidy winced loudly, the pain still not subsiding. The translucent barriers fell down and she was being shaken, as if that'll help. She miserably thought. She fluttered her eyes open slowly, and as she looked at the faces in front of her, her heart ached. Vermithis Ashgrim's body was no longer around, disappeared. But it was for the best, she had thought. Vermithis Ashgrim deserved to lay dead, in peace. She looked at all of them and could only think of what their ancestors had done. She looked at the ground where Abourne still weakly held Vermithis' hand.

Inside Betty Blaque's Crypt, it had been stated: every dead person you channel, you are channeling a life that once lived. The energy it drains from you is a lifetime, you will face severe consequences. Channeling the energy of the source with the energy of a dead person to pass through the veil of the dead and into the in between is difficult business. It was incredibly evident in Abourne's unmoved body, her eyes dark, and her body pale and shivering.