#plegianstalker

Little Noire sniffed as she curled into a ball, trying her best to hide from her mother and anything else that scared her. “M-Mother is so… m-mean… always cursing me…” She wiped her tears then nearly screamed when Severa came into view.

“Gawds, there you are. Everyone was looking for you.” She took her seat next to the young girl and poked her. “Come on. Wanna go back…?”

“N-No…! Mother’s gonna… h-hex me again…!” She latched onto Severa who just sighed and rubbed her back.

“Come on. I’m sure that she had her own reasons for doing something like that. You know…? Probably uhm… make you stronger…?”

“Exactly.”

Both girls jumped when they suddenly heard Tharja’s voice who chuckled and knelt down to their eye level. “Come on Noire, it’s time to go home. It’s getting late and in the dark… fufufufu.”

Noire only shook in fear and held onto Severa. “Tharja! Cut it out! Can’t you see that you’re scaring her? Now I gotta spend another night with her!” She held onto her friend and rubbed her back, trying to calm her down.  “Why do you keep hexing her? Don’t you have anyone else to hex?”

“…In time you will understand… but for now we really do need t--…Severa, take Noire home. Now.” Tharja pulled out her Nosferatu tome and made sure that it was safe for the children to run home by themselves. “Hurry!”

Severa blinked but a familiar smell made her nod in agreement and grabbed Noire’s hand, running in the direction of their home.

“Noire, my child… I’m so sorry that I put you through all that hell… but I think I finally was able to help you in a way… in case you were unable to overcome everything yourself..” Tharja watched her daughter leave as she was attacked from behind by a Risen, doing her best to dispose of it and it’s comrades before it was too late.

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“S-Severa..! W-We have to go back..! Mother is..!” Noire struggled to break away from her friend who only stopped and huffed, looking around and grabbed a sharp looking tree branch.

“You want to go back to your mother? Fine. Just… stay behind me.”

Noire nodded and hid behind Severa, going back to where the dark mage was and gasped at the sight. “M-Mother…?!” She ran towards her and knelt down, shaking her to see if she would awaken. “M-Mother…! Wake up…!”

“Ngh.. N-Noire…? I… I’m so.. sorry…” She mumbled as she reached into her chest pocket to hand her daughter a talisman. “T-Take care… this…is my last…”