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I'm no hero and I'm not made of stone

She had sworn she would appear wherever Kaos did, and though it wasn't the easiest promise to keep, Erthë thought she was doing fairly well in keeping it. From what she knew she had not yet failed to find him. There was nothing she could do to make him go away again, of course, not yet, but she told herself that if she just kept watching him and remained vigilant, a witness to all his crimes, she would one day be able to find a way to vanquish him from this world and every other.

Speaking of crimes, here he was; at it again, as if he had learned nothing from the past. Horror clutched at her senses with poisoned claws where she circled above the gathered crowd, her face a pale mask of dread and disbelief at what the fool of a god was doing. She could see the pattern he had drawn with the foul markers, or rather the lack of pattern, and she felt the foul taint of the powers he set in motion even as his ritual brought the dead back to life.

"Fool!" she screamed at Kisamoa, voice trembling and nearly breaking as she saw them emerge from the river. She knew them, some of them, and it felt as though her heart would break all over again when she heard Isopia's familiar drawl address the demon. "Have you not done enough harm already? Is it not enough that you killed them, must you disturb them in death as well!?"

The little mare tugged her wings sharply towards the sides and dove madly towards the ever-changing god, too incensed by the atrocity he committed upon the souls of those he had slain to care about her own fate. Like a vicious seagull the little mare swooped down upon him, then angled herself up and around so that she might do it again. There was no plan behind it, no reasoning or hope of success, just a feral desire to hurt him for this.

That she in turn would probably get hurt was of no consequence. It would be a small price to pay for disrupting this ritual of his. Oh, if only her bow still worked...

Right or wrong, I can hardly tell
I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell

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