Ktulu

The world was ending. There was no question about it. No rhyme or reason. No denying it/ The world was ending and they were all going to die. There was nothing that they could do about it besides accept it and embrace oblivion.

It is with a defeated expression on her dark face that she watches helovian after helovian throw themselves into the battle. One by one their bodies are dissolved, the lives extinguished with minimal effort from Kaos. A small scared voice beside her drew her attention down and she looked at the child, frowning. It hadn't been that long ago that she'd found her in the Threshold, clinging to her dead mother's side. She had promised to look after her and care for her, but what could she do in the face of this? What could any of them do? Then she looked at the tiny filly, Rinne, on her other side, eyes wide and scared.

What could she do to protect them?

Her head raised and she watched in silent defeat as her brother's body was disintegrated into nothingness. All around there were screams of anguish for the fallen, denial for those realizing that their fight was pointless, and anger for being fooled by a false god. But didn't they have it coming? Hadn't they stolen his lands, killed his gods? This was their punishment for taking what they had no right to take. The gods had cursed them all because of their selfishness. Condemned them to this.

"Phi..." Her sister's name slipped, unbidden, past her lips as she saw the pale mare leading an attack on Kaos. "PHI! NO! STOP!" But it was too late. In the blink of an eye Phi was no more and it was just another dagger in Ktulu's heart. Another fracture that would be impossible to repair. Why?  She thought hopelessly. Why did you? How could you? What would she do without her sister? How could she live knowing that there was nothing left of Ophelia in the world?

She wanted to fight. She wanted to throw herself into the battle, to kick and scream and bite and let loose every ounce of anger she held in her body even if she knew that she'd be ripped apart.

"That thing is eating everyone!"

"What?" The Constrictor blinked and stared at the portal, realizing instantly what it was. Helovians were running through it one after the other, heading for a place that was safer (ha!) than where they were. Escape. "Go!" She urged Akeli, her head dipping down to shove against the filly's haunches. Rinne was next, shoved toward the portal.

"You promised to take care of me. What do we do?"

"Go. I'll see you on the other side." She said again, but this time she shoved the tiny winged filly through the portal. "You, too." Ktulu said as she shoved Rinne through. She paused for a moment to look back at the chaos of the battle before she and Eytan went through the portal.


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