HELHEIM: SKYLAR
Maximilian looked at her: "Promise me you'll take care of him when I'm gone." Much to Victor's inconsolable sobbing in the background
She embraced him: "Do it yourself." She whispered in his ear.
Maximilian's confused response came back: "What?"
Internally Skylar steeled herself, despite her telling herself that there was no other way she would go, she told herself: "No tears now."
She felt her eyes moisten, as she looked at the two people she considered her closest friends. Her first duty to herself was the protection of these people, the two boys in front of her, protect them like she couldn't protect her mother. As she looked at Victor safe to the side, and Maximilian embraces in her arms a hair away from the hole, she forced herself to pivot. She torqued herself elegantly so that Maximilian was now facing the hole and she had her back to it. She could she Maximilian's eyes widen.
She whispered to him one last time: "Take care of him. I love you both. I'll see you on the other side."
And with that, she kicked off Maximilian, sending him sprawling to safety as she fell into the abyss and let the cold and the darkness take her. She could see the light above fade, the sound of both her friends scream, but inside her, she felt nothing but peace.
And then darkness fell.
