[ The Vessel before the Nightmare King has always reflected others' expectations of them. What others see in them, what they desire from them; they are a still lake, a dark night, saying more about the person that stands before them than their own identity. They mimic it, absorb it; it is instinct and nature to do so. The only name they were ever given (if it could truly be called a name at all) spoke to that purpose.
They have never expected or wanted for anything else.
But the flame calls them as an equal; expecting nothing, asking nothing except who are you? It kindles a desire in them to reach out, to leap and be transformed. To see what happens if they are transformed, what they will become - if they make the choice. If they step over the boundary themselves.
"Shadows dream of endless fire."
They don't understand what falls into place, but something within them responds.
The Vessel dodges the Nightmare King's strike with a sudden moment of grace, cloak swirling and lengthening like the darkness they were born from, in response to his flames. They chase after their opponent with nail in hand, striking at their foe, their nail a silver blur.
Something has changed in them. Once again, a spark ignites, a heart-pounding excitement. ]
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They have never expected or wanted for anything else.
But the flame calls them as an equal; expecting nothing, asking nothing except who are you? It kindles a desire in them to reach out, to leap and be transformed. To see what happens if they are transformed, what they will become - if they make the choice. If they step over the boundary themselves.
"Shadows dream of endless fire."
They don't understand what falls into place, but something within them responds.
The Vessel dodges the Nightmare King's strike with a sudden moment of grace, cloak swirling and lengthening like the darkness they were born from, in response to his flames. They chase after their opponent with nail in hand, striking at their foe, their nail a silver blur.
Something has changed in them. Once again, a spark ignites, a heart-pounding excitement. ]