#lyuu

"...I sat in this very mansion for a long time. There I would be beautiful, to preen myself for clients... and got in all manner of trouble. Every bad thing you could think of... happened to me. And then one day I was kidnapped yet again by unknown forces. This was something I was all too used to. Taken for reasons I knew not. Many of you came to rescue me, and I was too weak to even save myself. I fell down in a dark pit, with Lyuu. Through the help of one of the Tempests, we escaped. But I couldn't go back. Not to that lifestyle. I needed to take control of my life, not sit in a gilded cage. I remembered the rod, and how we put the universe in it... And I was determined to get it back. To have some amount of power... I have no control of aether, no magic... I'm as useless as they come. So I sought out the universe. With the Professor and the Curator's help, I was able to find it and if... I found it, be able to hold it once again. But... when I faced down the adventurers from last time... they were so determined to stop me. If my friends knew that... I was doing this, they would surely have done so. So I went under the guise of the Striker. With a suit that does little more than smoke and mist. The mist isn't even exhaust. It's a camouflage for my aether. A means to hide my identity. I didn't want anyone to know what I was doing. And now that it's all over... I'm... quite tired of it. Thank you, everyone. For putting faith in some little vigilante."

Cosprei backs up a little bit. Gosh, this was really, really, really scary. And that was a long drop. She looks over to everyone. How was she going to make that jump...? Not much else to do but give it a try. And so she did. They both jumped... Reaching for the other side... ...And didn't make it. (Finished commission for Whompy of the apparent death of Cosprei!)

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