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Gaia is aware of her many reflections. She can feel her sisters and their shared connections, their fates, their destinies… all woven from the same threads yet creating entirely different tapestries from even the slightest of deviations. This reflection of herself could feel the Calamity from the Skies upon her body. It was watching and waiting for a time to strike, to enact vengeance for the prison she and her children forced the parasite into to keep all other life safe until a champion could eradicate the threat once and for all. The cost was heavy but Gaia and her children knew it would be far heavier without their sacrifices…
So Gaia was satisfied and it was time for her to rest.
Until, that is, she could feel The Calamity’s presence growing stronger once more and woke from her healing slumber.
What she woke to was the passing of time, much longer than her rest was meant to be, her body and lifeblood being devastated by human greed, her parasitic nemesis growing stronger by the day due to the human Scourge who tampers with her children, her lifeblood, and The Calamity, and finally, herself growing weaker by the moment and so few allies left…
Soooooooo yeah, she decided to tweak fate just a little bit.
It was far easier to send her voice to her children, no matter how unrecognizable they became under The Scourge’s hands, to complete this mission than to wait for devastation enough to send a WEAPON or her Champion. Her sisters have proven that that price is not worth being paid.
If she is anything, she is patient. It takes days… weeks… months… of reaching out to her children, her voice a mere whisper as they are stuck in the cage forged from her bones rather than next to her veins. But then the day arrives that her children fought so hard for, both on her behalf and their own.
The Scourge did not notice that the continuous escapes of her children were all carefully planned. Some distracted the human-parasite predators sent to capture or kill the escaped children, while others slowly whittled away at their targets to not arouse suspicion and have their plan thwarted.
Eventually enough damage was done, their preparations complete. Then when The Scourge entered the trap, Gaia pushed her presence through her lifeblood, and The Scourge was met with devastation unlike any other…
She is not supposed to, but for all her sisters that The Scourge sped towards their death as a puppet of the parasite, she relished in his screams until his soul was eradicated by her lifeblood just as his body was.
There. Everything was prepared for her Champion to finish the job, to fulfill his destiny, to be the hero and save Gaia and set all her children back onto a path of cohabitation and healing…
At least that’s how it was supposed to go… but hey, so long as it gets there eventually, she can keep being patient.