For a while, Ash just sat there. Around her, the chill in the air picked up and grew even colder, as she looked out at Arianna's body in front of her. Her chest felt so tight that she put a hand up to it, trying to breathe.
... So, this is what happens when I actually try to be someone's hero for once, Ash thought, letting out a deep breath. I'm just so fucking...
With her hands clenched into fists, Ash let out a deep sigh as she went to pick Arianna's body up.
I... Can't just leave her here. She thought, as she began to walk back to the valley, the same way she'd gotten here. The carriage that Zafir had come in had left already, just like the citizens' cart had before it.
As for Zafir himself, his ruined body was left alone there in the middle of this vast emptiness, where Ash felt it deserved to be.
