World of darkness : Book two : back from the dead

Part 32 : gerifs begining

After the events of the recent chapters the worlds are shifting , azuras army's march on cutting thought the centre of the frost bourne as hilda and Alfreds army's on each other front barley hold against the endless undead onslaught

Patricks only hope to stop azura and her army is to either capture her or what he hopes he will not have to and do what both rain and Alfred have told him and to quote rain " put her down " and kill her but he will need mara to finish the armour designed to absorb the lightning of herobirne but times running out for the time she has to finish it

Meanwhile rain has made the ender watchers abandon the frost bourne ending the alliance the two groups had , azuras plan was to have rain out of the picture which leaves the frost bourne vulnerable . Rain overwhelmed with grief for ciaras death is making him depressed and dread filled this could lead to him and his a abilitys to use the edn crystals unstable and could risk him going mad with power not to much unlike azura

Meanwhile in the nether Cynthia, shatter and Vanessa lead the nether kin and the other groups of nether army's are on the brink of beating the last power other then them in the nether being the pigmen , once Cynthia has them under her control she will crowned nether queen

( Pov stella )

It had only been one day since ciaras death and rains already locking himself away from the rest of us , i can only imagine how much pain hes going through with having to lose another person close to him

Lance was also hurt by the lose but he was hiding it on the outside but i could tell he was just trying to make me not worry ....it wasn't helping

Azura is still making her way to Patrick and has no signs of her army's being defeated or even slowed down , i want to help them but rain has made it clear he doesn't want us helping the frost bourne after what happened

As much as I follow rains orders and how much i love him still i dont like his decision here But I understand why he has done it

but i feel he should still help his friends and not leave them to die ....right now i just need to comfort him and make sure he doesnt go mad and so he might change his mind and help Patrick in the end .....so i hope

I made my way to his room , the door was open which let in a small breeze in through the hall way as i walked in to the room

I first i didnt see him but then i saw him leaning on to the wall of the balcony overlooking the ruins of the nethers attack a long time ago at this point ...back when naeus lead the nether

Rain didnt see me at first but i continued to walked towards him , he was looking down at his hands folded over each other ....clear he wasnt ok which is what I expected ...him and ciara were very close

Closer then i think ill ever be to him him and her loved each other for helping each other and i just feel maybe its better if i keep my feelings for him out of my thoughts and just focus and helping him

" rain ....are you ok ?" I asked him as I walked next to him

He looked at me with clear signs of tears were coming from his eyes not long ago ...its clear he had been crying a lot

Rain " ....no ....shes gone and its my fault .....i could have saved her if i wasn't stupid " he was just beating him self with his words which i could not bare to see

" rain theres nothing you could have done ciara knew the risk she was getting into ...." He turned back to looking down at his hands

rain ".....stella .....i dont think i can do this ....lance needs me to be better and stronger but im not sure i can .....if i couldnt keep ciara save her ....how could i protect any one ....even you " i put my hand on his shoulder to try make him feel better but im not sure it would be helping