[Worship] Oriens? Any

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The rocks move, he struggles, Coraline manipulates the energy around her like an alchemist.  While others turn pages to books or turn sheets down to their beds - she rolls stones as big as bunnies away from the foot that is pinned between rocks.

Oddly enough, it hurts more for his foot to be freed than it had been stuck.  It hangs sadly, pitifully, blood seeps from the broken skin where bone reveals itself in glistening bloody fragments.  He'll never get off the mountain at this rate, now that the stones aren't holding him steady, he slides again.

"Oh Coraline!"  He yells, more worried about putting her in danger.  "Coraline please stay ba--ack!"  The ledge is thin, it tips towards the cliff-face, his good foot hooks and curls around an old root.  Already the wood is splintering into soggy shreds, Fall has done its worst to all hope.

"I'll see you again.  We always do?  Don't we?"  He promises, a wave of his energy, warm and gentle the way a summer breeze might be, caresses the side of her face sweetly, lifts her chin, and lets go.

The root breaks and Only slips off the ledge without so much as a squeal and disappears into the mists far down below.

@Coraline  <3 remember what I told you

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