RIOVANES

Written on October 30, 2021 (♏︎)

Author's Notes: Written for Whumptober 2021 for prompt No. 30: Digging Your Grave (Major Character Death).

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Ramza felt he heard Wiegraf's words before they were spoken—felt cold steel sheathed in his ribs before it hit home. He had drawn his sword; he knew that, but there seemed some fault in the continuity between his hand against the grip and his fallen blade scraping the floor.

Time stretched then where it had skipped before; Ramza waited for a final blow. It was slow in coming. As the shadows stretched into new forms above him, he knew he would be long in dying—that the four arms that eventually pinned him down would not break him cleanly.

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