Rami's Rescue?
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 46127
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Minestus, the warped serpent-mage, advanced on the unconscious shell of Rami's body.
And yet, somehow, she was aware of it as if in a dream, seeing it happen to her as if viewing
it from outside, even though she was unconscious. It was as if she had passed beyond what
we understand as consciousness. Nonetheless, she could see the darkness that was
Minestus drawing toward her soul. As her soul stilled before the darkness like a deer in the
headlights, Minestus drew her body closer to him. She realized, almost abstractly, as if
watching the scene on television, how beautiful Minestus's body was. She realized much
more viscerally how beautiful the darkness of his soul was. It was charged with power,
power that could become part of her if only she accepted it. She hungered for it, just as she
had come to hunger for the orc-meat. She felt the blackness about to embrace her.
And as she looked upon Minestus's body, realizing how puny she was before the vast, beautiful darkness of Minestus, she thought for a moment of Bilbo confronting Smaug in The Hobbit. As the story entered her mind, she suddenly looked with horror on the wyrm. Memories of her life, which she had thought she'd moved beyond, began to grip her mind once more--she remembered her parents and how frustrated and angry she was that they couldn't fully love each other, her sister and all the times they'd annoyed each other and all the good they'd done for each other, the annoying snobby girls who'd tormented her in grade school and the one's that tormented her in high school, her first friendships and all the ones that had grown and those that had fallen apart since then, the agony she felt trying to sit through her pointless math classes and annoyance at the bad English classes that ruined books for her that she should have loved, the first time she read Lord of the Rings, the first time she smoked, her first date, her first breakup, all the loves that she'd won and lost since then, her resolution to quit smoking, her annoyance at not being able to smoke and her sister carrying around and constantly guarding her lighter, even though she'd asked her to, the time she first saw Lord Fred and just knew he was the one, the day she broke up with him, practically screaming him out of the house, not sure whether she felt glad to be free of him or sad that she'd lost him... She was herself again. Get away from me, you creepy dragon! her spirit shouted as she flailed around in the darkness. And then Rami was filled with light. She did not consciously create it, yet she felt it flowing through her, as if part of her. She saw something dangling from her own neck, an eldritch golden medallion, as she stood before the wyrm about to violate her own body. I Invoke the Holy Reliquaries of Naresio! intoned the voice of the light from within her. Minestus screamed in pain and pulled his hands away from Rami as if she had burned them. Minestus looked into the light and laughed, although he shrank from it. He did not seem afraid. You are a fool. You'll never be able to stop me from fulfilling my destiny. You came in time to stop me from planting the seed in the girl so that she may attain her destiny, but your champions could not reach me in time. Each time you turn back time, the thread of history that led to you grows weaker and weaker. I had almost won her soul when you came. Had you only been a few seconds later, she would have been fully mine. She will never even reach the point where the Sorceror Supreme would give her the Eye, let alone accept it. The game is different each time,and this time I will win it. You will never win, Minestus. You are weak and ruled by your degraded lusts. Her soul will ascend beyond your darkness. Rami felt a thrill of light within her. By the Keys of Immortal Ariophi! Let time return to its source, let Rami follow the thread of time to the start of the labyrinth, that she may find her center! The darkness screamed around her. Rami felt herself pulled into a whirlpool, the world rushing backwards around her--
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