“No!” Ramza cried as his allies struck a killing blow on the fallen man. Kurma would not get to say goodbye to his father. The surviving Herans would have no body to bury in their royal tombs. Garland would never be allowed to see the world he had protected delivered from the Calamity’s shadow.
And then his world exploded in fire. The wind-elemental weakness of his newly acquired bending job made the rushing gale of flames throw him even further, and it was probably only the friction of his armor against the platform that slowed him enough to not fall to his death.
He lay on the ground, stunned for a few moments, unable to hear the roar of battle through his ringing ears. Opening his eyes was a monumental task, and it took a few halting, blinking tries before he could make it stick.
“…Delita…?” he slurred. The feel of skin cracked with the heat, of the rasping burn of smoke in his lungs, the ache of having crashed to the ground…these had all happened before, the day the pillars of his life had crumbled around him. It took a moment of bleary searching for a fortress that no longer existed before his muddled mind returned him to the present.
He had so little strength left, even with Kaji’s spell, but he could not surrender, not until his heart stopped pumping his father’s blood through his veins and his soul crystallized. He spent his turn forcing his beaten body to rise up. Ramza managed to get to his knees.
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And then his world exploded in fire. The wind-elemental weakness of his newly acquired bending job made the rushing gale of flames throw him even further, and it was probably only the friction of his armor against the platform that slowed him enough to not fall to his death.
He lay on the ground, stunned for a few moments, unable to hear the roar of battle through his ringing ears. Opening his eyes was a monumental task, and it took a few halting, blinking tries before he could make it stick.
“…Delita…?” he slurred. The feel of skin cracked with the heat, of the rasping burn of smoke in his lungs, the ache of having crashed to the ground…these had all happened before, the day the pillars of his life had crumbled around him. It took a moment of bleary searching for a fortress that no longer existed before his muddled mind returned him to the present.
He had so little strength left, even with Kaji’s spell, but he could not surrender, not until his heart stopped pumping his father’s blood through his veins and his soul crystallized. He spent his turn forcing his beaten body to rise up. Ramza managed to get to his knees.