Circumradiant
Legacy Name: Circumradiant

I don't remember what happened--just a sharp, burning pain in my neck, and then blackness.

I am scared. Where was she? The last thing I heard was a roar of despair. It was not me. I feel nothing and everything all at once; I just float here. It is only black.

Sparks. There are sparks. An eerie static fills my ears. Creatures in an orb shape, their eyes swirling in discord. They look at me closely. I cannot move.

"Please, let me go. I need to get back to her!" I finally could speak.

But you cannot. You are dead.

I wail in hopelessness.
"NO! I CAN'T LEAVE NOW!"

They cackle at me. I cry harder.

A bigger, winged creature approaches. It is odd to look at; its skin is all splotched, it has two mouths filled with sharp teeth, its eyes on the shoulder of its wings. It has no arms or legs. Static sparks crackle all around it.

We could let you go back, but what cost are you willing to pay?
Its voice echoes quietly.

"ANYTHING--" I say.
It was the wrong thing to say.

Both mouths grin and its eyes begin to glow. A spacial tear opens up in the darkness; the same static fills it. I am being pulled in whether I want to or not, though in panic I struggle against it anyway.

I feel... strange. Then pain--my eyes feel as though they are being ripped backwards through my head. I can even see inside. Then blackness again. I hear the cackling of the awful little orbs, but I cannot see them. I see nothing.

We will take you back to your love, they begin, but you can no longer see her face. You can no longer see anything--

I chomp at them in protest, but of course I cannot do so accurately.

Welcome home...


I feel rain. I know that feeling. I hear thunder; am I back home?

I hear the wailing again. I know that voice. I call back. The wailing stops. All I hear is rain.

The ground shakes... something approaches quickly. I feel it. I turn my head in every direction in vain.

It stops. My love... I know her smell, even in the rain.

She is quiet.

"Fate has smiled on me and allowed me to come home." I happily announce.

"It can't be you... you were killed two years ago! You look.. nothing like you. You sound the same, but you are not."

I scoot in the direction of her voice; I feel her scoot back. I frown.
"Two years? No no no, it only just happened! And what is this nonsense?"
The doubt rings loudly in my voice. Have I been gone so long?

"Your eyes... where are your eyes? Why is your skin that way?"

I cannot see her face, but I know there is sadness in it. She slowly approaches me, and when she gets close, a sudden jolt of electricity I cannot stop my body from emitting stings her nose. She jumps back and I can feel her frown.

"What have you done?" she asks.

I am speechless, and want to cry. I cannot.
"Has it really been that long? If it has, why did I meet you here?"

"Because we are near our home. I have mourned your loss every night."

I stop and listen. Yes, I am home. But why am I like this?


She does not know how to feel about all of this. She eventually tells me that a great sea monster with long and sharp teeth grabbed me. Yes... I remember now. We tried to run; we were not strong back then. I can feel her now though, and she is stronger.

She tries. She tries to take me back in the way we were, but I can feel her coldness. She is still not even sure it is really me. I am dead.

We started arguing a lot. When I get intense, the sparks get worse. The little demon orbs taunt me as they circle around me, and her. I don't mean to.

Eventually she tells me she just cannot accept this. She was just starting to heal from what happened.

I am crushed. She goes back into the water; I feel her look back one last time, and hang her head low.

I want to cry. I cannot. Why am I even here.

I don't want to be here anymore.

Too bad.

I try to end myself, but fail every time; I just fall into a void only to end up back where I was. I tell them to just let me die.

You said "anything" did you not? You got what you wanted... now you will spend your immortal life repaying me.

Immortal...

They did not take everything---I still see her smile. It is all I can feel now.