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<h1>The Moon's Knight</h1>
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<h1>Finis.</h1>
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Over sunset fields, breeze-borne interlocutors tell tall-tales of the Empire's distant fringes; dark-crowned wilds, twisted thorn-forests of entangling brush, seas of tufted grass horridly reminiscent of oceans traversed by starlight. Morning - Death - lies beyond the ridge-border. Atop it, the Moon caresses your cheek longingly.
<<cont append>><i>Return to me,</i> she breathed; both threat and promise with you borne in her tides, her game of <<linkappend "give">> - an ampule of stars, plucked by gentle hand and bottled carefully rests cold upon your breast -<</linkappend>> and <<linkappend "take">> - wrathful provocation, promise hurled at your turned back<</linkappend>>. Incandescent, reflective; Mother Sun burnt with the Stars upon the pyre.
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You sought her guidance; found only disdain in cold, distant daylight shades, waning before your sword. Ill-met, her favor hard-earned. Who were you to touch the Moon - behold her pale glory, twine your earthly form with one born of stars - and leave?
<<cont append>>A fool. A fool who hides her face under silvery helm, listens to the chanting war-march upon horseback, trotting amongst formations of foot-soldiers doomed to die for an Empire who hates them, orders them to the death they will scream as war-cry, cresting the ridge into a hail of arrows blotting the sun from the skies.
<<cont append>>For a moment, it will be dark enough to see the Moon.
<<cont append>>For a moment, you will turn your face to the skies and find them empty.
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The skies fall, shattering upon your shield. Onwards, the survivors rage.
<<cont append>>All blurs before you, crashing waves of sword and spear. Aching; you can only sink deeper, armor heavy with bitter, bloody guilt; every face hers, every stark expression of agony or terror or betrayal carved upon her features.
<<cont append>>Gashed from shoulder to hip, moonlight drenching the soil, she holds your petrified gaze. Under empty skies, you kneel, plead silently to a corpse.
<<cont append>><i>I cannot return,</i> you retch.
<<cont append>>Cold hands clench the hilt of your sword, guide gauntleted arm in long, fatal arc.
<<cont append>><i>You promised you would,</i> the cruel Moon insists, ignoring your lamentations. <i>I will uphold your promise myself, if I must.</i>
<<cont append>><center><div class = choice-item>[[...|END]]</div></center>
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The Moon has borne you fatally far, her heart carried as heraldic standard. She promised to protect you. The arrow pierces your armor, your skin, lodges beside the glass ampule. Starlight and blood drench your skin. You weep; unsurprised to have been struck yet reeling from unanticipated pain.
<<cont append>>Onwards, sword from scabbard, plunging into deep seas less human and more nature in their cruelty. Crashing waves of sword and spear, bloody tides warm with hewn bodies. Buckled body beneath; earth tasting of desperation as deeper you sink, armor sundered, shield splintered.
<<cont append>>Wax; the distant horn crying charge.
<<cont append>>Wane; alone, breathing shallow salt-iron breaths. The Moon descends, pale, to curse you, grab your bare face and raise you to your knees.
<<cont append>><i>Damn you,</i> she weeps. <i>You promised to return.</i>
<<cont append>><i>I looked,</i> you choke, not-yet-corpse amongst corpses. <i>I looked and you weren't there.</i>
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