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I wake up to the sound of everyone getting ready to fight and protect Brightstep. I look around trying to find my sister Dasiy, but I can’t find her. I just assume she ready to fight and is just waiting outside.
Sense I can’t find my sister, I ask around if I can join anyone’s group to stay with just like I promised Dasiy I would do. Pearl offers for me to join their group. I accept and stay close to them but not to close because not many actually want me around, so I just stay close enough to be protected, because I’m not a good fighter. I’m not good at anything but really be a problem.
A memory from a time before comes rushing back to me. My father and a person I assume as my teacher are yelling at me again as usual for doing something not perfect. “You are a useless daughter, you only cause me and every one around you problems. I should have killed you the moment after your mother was killed, you were crying for days about a trader, and you still do to this day. She’s a trader she deserved to die you know that, no one that betrays us deserves to live”.
I feel Pearl tap on my shoulder and tell me it’s time to go. So I snap back into reality and get ready to fight
As we fly down to the obelisk I fly around the flock in look for Dasiy, I still don’t find her. I start getting really nervous.
As we get down to where the obelisk is supposed to be, everyone is confused on where the obelisk went all that’s left is an egg, deep down I believe that the egg is Rune but I throw that thought away because I know that’s impossible Rune is dead.
When Vast mom appears I go and hide, so I won’t be in the way. But when she starts summoning the void creatures, I go and find a safer spot where I could hide just like Dasiy taught me to do when I’m in danger. Dasiy promised me that after the danger passes she would come find me. From my hiding spot I hear Vergil say some pretty amazing lines.
When I hear everyone cheering about Vasts mom being dead, I peak my head out of my hiding spot and I see the egg start hatch. As it hatched I hop down and see that It’s Rune! I was right Runes okay, he was in that egg!
As everyone surrounds Rune and very excitedly start talking about how happy they were that he was back, I start to feel the island start to shake and rumble, like it’s going to fall. But the islands aren’t supposed to be falling anymore, I thought Rune fixed it when he sacrificed himself. I try to fly away and get to the higher islands of Brightstep where it is safe, but I can’t, my wings aren’t working. I look down and see a bunch of feathers that were misplaced and an arrow stuck in my right wing. I try to pull it out but I can’t. I’m not strong enough. The arrow reminds me of my mom. Her wings also got hurt by an arrow, I remember her telling me that, other than that I can’t remember much of my mom. But the few other things I do remember of her come to front of my brain. I remember she called me Gemstone, and that she tried to escape the Avicane with me to keep me safe and away from those monsters. But she failed, and I had to watch her get killed, I can still remember her screams.
The island starts to shake again and I am forced back to reality. I ask Fey what’s going on, and they say that the island is going to fall. But Rune said he fixed it and he said everything would be ok and that we would be safe. I say. Fey just coos and comforts me as her response.
I ask Fey and Pearl if they have seen Dasiy, they haven’t.
Before the island falls the flock pulls me into a big cuddle pile. I look through the flock and try to spot Dasiy or Torch, the other magpie Dasiy told me to stay by if I couldn’t find her. When I can’t find either of them, I start to panic. One of the older magpies of the flock tries to pull closer to them, but I just back away. And my brain starts to go in circles, I fall onto the ground and start having something Dasiy calls a panic attack. Im alone, like always. I don’t deserve them, they are all just my imagination, they aren’t real. Nothing here is real, this is all just a dream. I haven’t made any friends or family here. I’m not worth anything anyway, just like they have always told me, I’m nothing. This is all just an amazing dream and I’m just going to wake up and be back with the Avicane and with my father all alone. Just as I should be.
I hear the flock and the people of Brightstep telling each other that it would be ok, that they love each other, and that they would see each other soon.
As the island starts to fall I say goodbye to this lovely dream and to all the lovely people I’ve met. But especially I say goodbye and sorry to Dasiy. I know you can’t hear me right now Dasiy, but I love you and I’m so very sorry for leaving you alone. I wish I could stay with you in this lovely dream forever. Thank you for being the best sister, and friend I could ever ask for.
With that I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and I feel one of my flock mates, probably Pearl or Fey pick me up from the ground and put me into the magpie pile of comfort. The last thing I feel before the island fall is the warmth and the love from my flock around me. Even with all the love and warmth I feel, I’m still cold and alone. I’m surrounded by my flock but I still feel alone, I will always be alone without my sister being here with me.
As the island falls I start to cry, even though I know I shouldn’t cry because this isn’t real, I still do. Crying I tell the flock goodbye one more time and I ask them to watch over Dasiy for me and to tell her that I’ll always love her. At that the world goes dark and I can’t hear the flock or anyone that lived in Brightstep anymore.