Nether scowled at Dragon. "Something to say?"
Dragon shook his head.
Nether made an exasperated sound and walked away, her feet crunching on dead leaves. She hated Dragon. He was such a creep- barely ever spoke, just stared at everything like someone demented.
No, Sun was demented, cutting off Overworld travel to both the Nether and- after a while, once Eyes of Ender had run out- the End. Like some kind of protective parent or something.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Everything was dumb, everything was imbecilic, and Nether had slapped the label 'ignoramus' on existence in general.
She kicked a tree moodily. All it did was scrape her bare feet. She angrily set it alight and watched as burning leaves drifted down, giving the tree a halo of light.
"Durnyi oorinde!" Nether muttered. Then, with some surprise, she realised she'd used Wither Skeleton speak.
Her eyes burned and, for the first time in her extremely long life, she wished she had the ability to cry.
"You okay?" asked a tentative voice behind her.
Nether spun around and glared at Dynamite.
"Sun is stupid." Dynamite asserted. "Dragon filled me in," she added quickly.
Nether wanted to slap her. "Stop trying to understand. You can't."
Dynamite looked shocked for a split second. Then she started to laugh. Her long hair swayed as she shook.
Nether was furious. "Very funny, isn't it?"
Dynamite smiled, and Nether's cold, angry demeanour shook itself off despite her.
"I can understand a whole lot better than you give me credit for. I already told you I'm an orphan. And…"
Her eyes clouded over. "I don't want to talk about it." she said coldly.
As she walked away, Nether wondered what it was that she didn't want to talk about.
Dragon took her attention. "What happened exactly? I mean, how did you survive?"
"It expelled me." Nether answered shortly. "And so I was here, and I just…"
She stomped her foot and walked away.
"I will kill Sun." she muttered. "Kill him!"
"He'll respawn," Dragon called. "As I do. But not you."
Nether turned on her heel and the colour visibly faded out of her face. "I-"
Then the colour returned, more brilliant than before. "Blood and ashes," she muttered. It was the best curse she could come up with on the spot.
When killed, Dragon respawned- in his dimension. Sun had been killed once or twice before, and respawned- in his dimension. Nether had never been killed, but if she had, she would respawn- in her dimension.
Without her dimension to spawn in…
The forest set on sudden fire around Nether. She was just a shadow in the middle of the flames. Her eyes burnt as she glowered out from her fortress of flames.
"Anyone who comes near me," she spat, "dies. Immediately."
Dynamite stared out from behind a bush, with Kym.
Ashes and embers flew. Dynamite cried out as one stung her face, and quickly pulled a small glass vial from a small satchel on the ground beside her, drinking the contents. She was shrouded in strange-coloured mist.
Potion of fire resistance.
Nether stared. Was it the light, or were Dynamite's normally blue eyes a bright white?