Candle
This is Nexus...
Her chapter...
You will finally find out why...
Not why she is the girl of grays...
I'm gonna get thru this
Gotta take
Gotta take my mind off of you
Gaia help me get thru this
Without you people killing me...
I'm gonna get thru this...
Anyways...
I shall begin.
And we delve deeper
And deeper still
Down once more...
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Candle
Hunter's Eyes: Go Deeper
You hold the answers deep within your own mind
Consciously you've forgotten
For that's the way the human mind works
Whenever something is too unpleasant
Too shameful for us to entertain
We reject it,
We erase it from our memories
But the answer is always there
It was twilight. Link had eventually drifted off to sleep, head on the ground after migrating from Nexus's knee. Nexus, having been rather disturbed by the whole ordeal, decided to solve all of this by herself.
She stood up, making no sound. She drew her sword equally silent, and looked at the fairy boy at her feet. Sword in her left hand, she raised it high above her head. The silver side of the blade caught the fleeting sunlight as she brought it down swiftly. The blade buried itself in the ground millimeters from Link's head. It would now serve as a ward, a warning to all the restless souls lurking around in the dark.
Nexus turned and descended into the Shadow Temple once more. Cautiously working her way down into the room where she rescued Link, she now found only the woman there.
"Why do this? Why resort to sorcery?" Nexus asked.
"He wasn't supposed to live...he was supposed to die."
"Why kill him? He has done so much for this world."
"Because he is alive, he has fucked up everything."
"But why kill your only son? Your own flesh and blood?"
The woman looked at Nexus with crazed and hungry eyes, proof that her madness had taken her.
"Because he lived..."
Nexus pulled the knife from her thigh.
"Are you going to kill me?" The woman asked.
Nexus nodded, pulling her hidden knife from her boot.
"Then make sure that my blood soaks your armor like rain."
"I will, but I must know your name before I kill you."
"My name is Aziira."
"Farewell."
Nexus sprang forth, knives gleaming like stars. In a half step and several grand whirls later, there was nothing left of Aziira, but her blood was splashed all over the silver dragon-scale armor and the pale face of Nexus. She wiped her blades clean and returned to the outside world. One problem had been taken care of. If she had let Aziira live, the bitch would have just tried to kill her son again.
Nexus returned to Link, still asleep. She knelt next to him, gently brushing a few strands of his stray golden-blonde hair out of his face. She closed her eyes, and separated herself from this plane.
She focused on Link, leaving herself to enter his mind.
She opened her eyes, no longer green but a blazing yellow with the great black insignia of the God Slayer Dragon. These were her Hunter's Eyes. They were her entrance into people's minds. This was how she saved people.
Upon opening her eyes, she found her self as she always was in one's mind, naked. The scar under her left eye traced fully down her neck, between her teacup-sized breasts and down to her ankle. The one over her right eye, though hidden by her hair, revealed itself on the back of her neck and tracing down her back and down her thigh to her opposing ankle. This was normal.
Nexus looked around her. She was standing on a wire, and the wire was resting on a lake of silver. This was the safest and most organized part of Link's mind, his prenumbril. Nexus looked at the lake. Silver water was a cover-up, and in the mind, it was not even water.
Nexus let her balance sway and she plunged deeper into Link's near umbril.
Passing through with no problems, she ventured further, into the darkness, the lust, the nightmares and the chaos. The deep umbril of the mind.
Nexus landed softly on a bed of shriveled, dead, lily petals. She looked at the inky blackness around her, and then at the two great door before her. This was her path, her beginning. She took a deep breath and momentarily traced her fingers over her scars.
"I can't fail..." She whispered before stepping through the doors.
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Chapter end!
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