And I thought you said you'd avenge me, avenge ehetria, live for yourself, I thought you said you'd survive and we'd grow stronger, together, and alone, both of us... instead you ended your life in such a disappointing way...
What was going on?
What was that mockingly singing voice reminiscent of.. well... a mockingbird...
Oh!
It was Cades, it was himself...
No, wait, he was Leyk, wasn't he?
Leyk opened his eyes.
It was an endless ocean of a mirrored silver world, it was a mirrored darkness, it was everything and nothing he saw and felt, and he felt something else, a shadow blocking the light of a non-existent sun, a sun he yearned to see for quite some time now, the last time having seen a sun having fallen back to the day he had spent atop that endless floor of accursed reddened wood.
Wait.. no.. it was an endless dark ocean of still water reflecting that which was above, being nothing aside from some stars and what seemed to be scars made of light itself hovering above, as well as an endlessly big galaxy he had never seen before, bathing everything in a ghostly violet light, some stars seemingly being bound by something light blue, a colour he knew far too well by now, having learned to fear it during his battle with Vexxen.
Was this perhaps what Vexxen had done... but there were so incredibly many stars within that twirling mass, how was it possible to accurately target every hundredth star needed, amongst what he estimated to be billions, perhaps even many more, it just seemed as if there was an entire dessert full of sand hovering in the airs, dancing in an endlessly huge spiral and covering everything, each corn of sand being a small world, something he felt drawn towards, something he knew and yet didn't kno-
"Sorry for interrupting you, Leyk, as you now call yourself, but while I appreciate you looking at me like that, I think we'll have to talk about our current situation, or rather, should I say" Leyk felt a grin shining onto his neck, "Leydens situation.."
Cades was here.
"What do you mean, this is you?"
"Well, I am not one to normally boast, but what you see is something I like to call the net of experiences, it is everything you have ever experienced, and those nasty sparks of blue light, pure equations and calculations, that you certainly got right, are snuffing out parts of your bodily functions, your will of moving, the intent and subconsciousness normally leading your, our body, the only reason you didn't die was because I am not that subconsciousness, you have a new one."
He laughed aloud, or at least he tried to do so, Leyk still looking at the endless twirling wind of stars that danced as sand corns within the wildest of storms, poetic, yes, but also quite fitting, something he simply refused to take his eyes off of.
"That attack was really something, it was insanely accurate and creepily filled with the person's own thoughts, with countless equations that I'd have to spent months, or at least a few weeks, to full understand, something I am not willing to do as of right now.... but you got to admit, it is fairly impressive and definitely something I want to learn to do..."
Finally, Leyk turned around, and saw, something surprising.
This time there stood a small girl, elegantly befitted with clothing that was as if he was pretending to be something known as a child working in a festival booth, it was disturbing, and indeed, more than enough to achieve the desired effect as he soon realized, just moments after he looked at the blond little girl that seemed to have barely entered puberty.
Leyk almost did a spit-take, forgetting that he had just seen an endless starry twirl, that he had just been beheaded, all that was in his mind was the fact that there was a almost grown man wearing childclothes and looking like a little girl in front of him, and the fact that the man was himsel-
... Leyk quickly understood it...
He took a deep breath, unnecessary in this place, but still.
He exhaled slowly, mustering the courage to look at the small blonde girl once more that looked as if she was about to kick him where the sun was destined to never ever shine, something he would've definitely done in the girl's place after something like this happened and he'd be surprised this much, though he had to admit that the bird-like voice made more sense now, he had really been absent hadn't he...
Leyk laughed slightly as he raised his head again, having almost collapsed from the sheer absurdity of this situation, of his former self dressed and in the form of a stereotypical cute child as they were described in novels, though he did see that the child was exceedingly cute in the true world as well, aside from the fact that it was probably still an adult's organs, that much maturity was to be expected from a version of himself after all.
Of course, only in the manner that a child could be seen as cute, that being the manner of causing the desire in people to protect them, a good skill for survival after all, but not something that his other self would normally put effort into, as well as the fashion sense.
Why would he wear such a weird, though still child-appropriate dress, simply and not special in many ways, looking like what the daughter of a farmer would wear while illustrated by an artist to seem cuter and more beautiful than it actually was back the-
"Calmed yourself down now?"
Leyk's head snapped back into place as he looked at Cades who was now back to normal, the appearance of the current him, though back one ehetria, yellowish eyes, long black wings, orderly clothes besmirched by and dirt or such, nice and neat, something he missed dearly, his voice also returning to normal.