Dragon Heart, Hollow Chest
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"Your... your blood is purple."
He said it with the quiet awe of a scientist noting a bizarre natural phenomenon. Then, the implication seemed to hit him. His brow furrowed. "Why is it purple?" He looked up at Wanderer, confusion warring with the lingering panic. "People have red blood. I've seen it. Even Albedo has red blood. Why is yours.. different?"
Wanderer closed his eyes for a moment. The question was a minefield. Because I’m not people. Because I was built, not born. Because the fluid that animates me is a blend of elemental essence and liquid ambition. "It's.. a long story," he finally managed, opting for evasion. "A side effect of a terrible diet."
in which, Durin finally visits Hat Guy after the transformation, but things don't go as planned...
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- Part 1 of Dragon Heart, Hollow Chest
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He steadied himself against a sun-bleached rock, his breath coming in unsteady gusts. He shouldn't be breathing this hard. He shouldn't need to breathe at all....
"Just the flight," he muttered to the empty air, his voice rough. "Just… prolonged exertion."
But the lie tasted like ash. This wasn't muscle fatigue. It was a systemic drain, as if something inside him was drinking his energy, swallowing the very power that animated him...
In which, The aftermath of Luna 4 Archon Quest, and how I think futre Archon Quests will take place..
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- Part 2 of Dragon Heart, Hollow Chest
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"Do we... know each other?"
The words hung in the air between them, heavy and wrong. Durin heard them. He understood them. intellectually, at least. The sounds formed syllables, the syllables formed meaning, the meaning formed a question....
But his heart hadn't caught up....
His heart was still back in the Irminsul realm, watching Hat Guy pull out his own core....
His heart was still on the floor of the Sanctuary, holding a body that wouldn't wake up...
His heart was still hoping, desperately, impossibly hoping, that everything would be okay...
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- Part 3 of Dragon Heart, Hollow Chest