Monday, September 23, 2024

KLASMA: The void Era

The witch didn't remember the years she spent devoid of her humanity. She knew how it felt to lose touch with her core, to feel nothing about typical human plights, and to roam the Earth without a purpose and without a reason to wake up. She prayed for her death to come quick but given the curse cast upon her, Death couldn't come so easily.  So she dwelled on Earth for a century or maybe two. She dwelled and entertained herself with the absurdity of Life and Death. She no longer felt remorse for the lives she took. She no longer cared about her fellow witches and whatever threat they had to deal with. She no longer cared about life itself. Nëela called this period "the Void Era" because there was nothing but emptiness in her heart. She was at the lowest point of her life, lonely, bitter, eager to die. She even summoned a demon in an attempt to have it claim her life but her curse was so powerful that the demon refused to take her soul.  Desperation broke her mind, loneliness broke her soul and here she was, feeling absolutely nothing about her surroundings.  Of this "Void Era", the only thing she could remember was how painful it was for her. Her curse worked even better, feeding off of her guilt and pain to make her whole being throb in agony.  

There had been rampages, that she could be sure of. There had been senseless deaths at her hand, of that she could be of. There are been tears running down countless faces as she decimated families, clans, and sometimes whole villages of monsters in her wake. She wasn't sure, but her "boogeyman" reputation might have come from those two centuries spent feeling absolutely no remorse for the pain she could cause.  Was her brain protecting her from breaking down by not allowing Nëela to remember what she did, or were the actions so perverse and so frequent that it couldn't remember a specific moment? She didn't know, she didn't want to know. What she wanted, what she really wanted was to make sure that she would never become like that again, not when Klaus was in her life, not when she wanted to remember every moment she lived with him. Besides, she didn't want to lose herself when bigger threats were lurking. What good could that do if she attacked allies instead of enemies? What good? 

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