FINAL TRIAL

[foundationmods]

...Finally, it was time to begin.

The unlit pyre rose before them, tall and massive.
The smell of smoke wafted around them, as the Witch stood before them - flanked by all her demons and her servants.
The Pieces she had taken.🗈

There was no audience, no trial.

It was just them...and the Witch.

The Witch who stood before the pyre, as if accepting her fate.


In this, this final hour... Music could be heard by both the pieces and those that looked on from another plane.

Their forms were changed again, for the final time - to those of the trial.

A trial that could easily turn into an execution...or a redemption.

But it still had to happen.
If something heals improperly, you must cause pain and reopen the wounds to make it heal correctly.
But.
There was always the risk of infection...

....Would this end....in a happy ending...?

...Nothing was certain.

Nothing, except the knowledge in their own hearts and minds.

Comments

[aleph_armed]

[Gebura just smiles as the attack comes through once again, a viscous reddish black fluid .]

...Thank you. There's only one other person that could have made the cake.

The cake was made by Kurama. The cake was intended to be a second murder weapon, but went unused as Kurama killed Erhard with a knife instead.

[byanyother_name]

[That part of the blue lands solidly, and Shass gives a barely audible gasp before firming his stance, glaring back at Gebura. The sword in his hand flickers but steadies as he makes the last strike to crack her greater narrative.]

Erhard didn't use his left hand.

[aleph_armed]

Ah, I see. He stabbed her from behind, then. Emi only saw him after she was stabbed and he was pulling the knife out of her neck.

[byanyother_name]

Oh dear, wrong again! Erhard did not stab Emi from behind.

[Shass lashes out at her viciously with his sword, a cruel smile curving his lips.]

Is that all a weaponsmistress can think of?

[aleph_armed]

...Ah, you're right. I ignored the grip, didn't I?

He used an icepick grip to attack her.

[byanyother_name]

[Ow. Shass lets out a hiss of fury as the blue bites into him.]