Disclaimer - Neither the characters, nor the places are mine.

A/N - No names are mentioned here, but I'm sure you can guess both who this refers to, and where. TTT (book) spoilers.

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I run to you. Not soon enough. You lay still, transparent underneath the dirt, your pain glistening in a warm river of blood. Too cold; you are like ice. Your eyes flicker open, briefly, a dull, heavy blue under the white lids. The light has left them. I lean in and kiss your forehead, and your eyes close.

There is nothing left.

Somewhere, I can hear the foul voice of the creature, gloating through her pain. We cannot stay here: not in this place of danger. I have to leave you, as you have left me. With as much care as my trembling fingers allow I take It from you.

When It is gone I will return.

Thunder echoes in the distance and the shadow grows darker.

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