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“Go! Go!”

Fires raged and buildings fractured and shrieks filled the air as Emet-Selch demolished slavering beasts with a crushing swipe from one enormous arm and pushing terrified Amaurotines out of danger with the other. They scrambled to their feet, gasping their thanks as they turned tail and ran. Emet-Selch destroyed another swath of beasts as he watched them run off—he trusted they were heading for the rendezvous point designated by the Convocation just hours before beasts began pouring into the city.

He couldn’t spend much more time in the city—he and the Convocation needed to enact their plan before the entire city was devoured by these creatures, but he couldn’t leave to begin the ritual just yet—not when there was still a chance to find them—

Aetheric power spun wildly around his massive form as he charged down a boulevard crawling with frenzied beasts, their bodies split in twain by the razor-sharp aether before they could open their monstrous mouths and lunge for him. He was almost there—he was almost there—

His heart stopped.

It was a pile of rubble—a pile of smoldering rubble surrounded by a horde of beasts—

A pile of smoldering rubble and he could see the weak glint of a soul—

With a strangled cry, he leapt forward and immediately the beasts exploded in a shower horror and terror and fear and with the beasts gone he desperately scooped the rubble away. The burgeoning terror in his gut grew with each armful of debris he threw aside—his arms soon broke through to a space underneath, cried out in triumph and redoubled his efforts. Soon he caught a glimpse of white in the shadows—heard ragged breathing—and with another cry he hurled what remained of the debris away and pulled his aether in so he could fit in the space—

“Hythlodaeus! Hythlodaeus!” he gasped, leaping forward and dropping to his knees beside the prone form of his friend.

Hythlodaeus’s head stirred but he didn’t seem able to move further—Emet-Selch felt his heart crumbling at the sight of Hythlodaeus’s soul bleeding from the grievous aetherial wounds left by the monsters consuming their city—He pulled Hythlodaeus into his arms and clung tightly to him, as though this could stem the leaking of his oldest friend’s soul—

“Hades—I couldn’t find anything—”

Emet-Selch pulled Hythlodaeus’s head into the crook of his neck as tears pooled in his eyes. The only reason Hythlodaeus had been down here instead of safely at the rendezvous point was to try and find a solution whilst the Convocation prepared for the worst—the only reason Hythlodaeus had been down here was to try to succeed where Emet-Selch had failed—

“It—it hurts worse than I expected,” Hythlodaeus rasped into his ear. He let out a weak laugh. “Tell Athena—she’s a liar.”

Emet-Selch let out a sob at the inevitable now before him.

His friend’s soul was bleeding uncontrollably.

His friend’s soul was bleeding uncontrollably and his last moments in their once-beautiful world were full of terror and destruction and pain—

“I wish I could take the pain away,” Hades whispered as the tears rolled down his cheeks.

“It’s not often—that you make wishes,” Hythlodaeus breathed. Emet-Selch felt him press his face further into his neck with a thin smile against his skin. “Save them...save them…”

Emet-Selch couldn’t take the pain away, but with tears in his eyes and the motionless body of his dearest friend in his arms

and a whispered goodbye into his friend’s hair

and their city falling to pieces around them

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