Yet Another Post-Demonbane Post

[gift_of_magus]

[The team's resident grandma can be found watching the sea drift by from the deck.]

So...

...Once again, I am the one left behind.

[She takes a deep breath and closes her eyes, listening to the waves below in silence. Evil still threatens the world. Even now, someone, somewhere, is being tempted by the Other that lurks outside reality. Dictators still stand to wage their petty wars under the eyes of of an uncaring universe. The malevolent Primeval Force plots and lurks even as she stands here, listening to the ocean.

But.

Mankind has friends in high places, too. And right here, right now, the world is at peace. So Eibon does something she does very rarely-she smiles.]

Comments

[2000_skills]

You book types sure do get depressed easily.

[gift_of_magus]

[...Aaaaand moment over.]

And you mortal types are quick to intrude on others.

[2000_skills]

I wasn't sure if you wanted to be alone or not.

[gift_of_magus]

I am quite fine with company now, though I would prefer it if you did not pass judgement on my emotions.

[She looks out over the railing at the ocean flowing by.]

[2000_skills]

Sorry about that...

This assuming that Shrewsbury is still Not A Thing

[gift_of_magus]

Today is a good day. We have won a great victory for the forces of Man, and for the first time...it seems like we could win. Like I can do more than simply delay the end of this world and the return of the Other.

But...Etheldedra and Al Azif are family...and the only ancients from my world who crossed over to this one. With their...absence, I am the last of my kind, the last one alive who remembers when the aurochs roamed the earth.

So I do hope you'll forgive me for not jumping for joy.

[2000_skills]

...It's not as if you're all alone though.
At least from a point of view besides you being a book.

You still have the Chalice and all your friends here.

[gift_of_magus]

Yes, and they're all going to die in under one hundred years. Except for the robots, I suppose, but they're all so...young.

I am rather fond of some of you people, but you are not a replacement for them. So while I am pleased with this ending, do not expect me to be exuberant about it.

[2000_skills]

...I'm sure there might be a way to get you back to them.
Someday.