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For once Lareasa found herself with some much needed free time. Not the I have time to myself but still have to run errands kind of free time, but genuine time that she could use for whatever she wanted. She wasted the day not really doing much other than relaxing, but as evening drew closer she became bored. That was how she ended up walking aimlessly around town. She didn’t have a specific destination but she knew she wanted to be anywhere but home so she just kept walking. Before she knew it she was standing on the outskirts of town by the lake.

As she went closer to the shoreline she saw a man standing facing the water. The sun setting threw shadows across his figure making it hard to tell who he was. She continued walking toward the shore, intending to say hello to whoever he was. Just as she was about to say something to the man, she caught a glimpse of his face.

She was going insane. No other option. She had finally lost her mind. There was no possible way that Gythan was standing in front of her. It had to be a trick of the light or something. She was after all at the same lake she had been to with Gythan, so maybe she was just imagining it. She kept running through her brain looking for a logical explanation but she couldn’t find one. It was definitely him, it had to be, but how? How was he here? Why was he here?

Why was she asking all these questions and not just talking to him?

There’d never been any real reason for Marius to give too much thoughts to the gods aside from those occasions where he’d needed to curse them for something or other. With the Shini around, now, he’d had more reason than ever to question just exactly what sort of game the gods were playing. He’d been actively avoiding the Shini so far, not quite sure what to do or say should he actually run into them and so choosing to just forego that awkwardness altogether. Marius also knew that if he didn’t go and seek out Michael he wouldn’t be able to forgive himself, though-- no one knew how long the Shini would be around, after all. Look at it that way, and there suddenly really wasn’t any room for choice at all.

His feelings were all over the place, when he thought of Lass, his heart broke apart all over again. No, she had not been Dedelean, the one love he could never cut from his heart, but her presence by his side had been so long and firm that whenever he thought of how he had send her to her death, it reminded him of how he had lost her. The one person he didn’t fear of losing, because she was powerful. 

And now she had returned. The Gods were playing some cruel game, hurting the people of the Fifth Gate tangled in the war by bringing back those they had lost along the way. And the four they had chosen. It was odd. The last Freedom Warrior, a Knight who had been killed in the more recent years, and two Black Dragon Magicians, two of his former generals. The two who had lived longest. 

He looked up from his papers, the Smoke recognized a familiar presence. 

*this post is to help those who want to para with one of the Shini’s to write a starter! Note, if you have liked the pictures we set up, it’s up to you to write a starter, to which the admins will respond

I have no idea where to start? Very understandable, we should’ve been a bit more clearer about the mental and overal situation of the dead characters. Below are a couple of notes to give you an idea about them, and how to approach them, or what they’re doing. 

- They are still their old selves, no memory losses, no physical changes, just the same as before they died. 

- They were sent to the Fifth Gate with a mission, but they’ve forgotten just what they needed to do, and now there is no one to tell them what it is. They choose to wander around and talk to people, as something should trigger that information to regain in their minds. Or so they hope. 

- They travel all over the place, all around the war. It really doesn’t matter that they are Knights or Mancers, they’re Shini after all, and in the war, the Gods are neutral. 

- They either talk to you, or you talk to them. Doesn’t matter. 

- They still have their Magic. So don’t make them angry. Except for Gythan, they are all highly skilled and dangerous Magicians. 

- the riddling doesn’t start right away.