can't outrun lightning.

THREAD LINK: https://sunstrike.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=60&hl= CHARACTERS:

• dia zanbek (xeno)
• anima blair (safi)

#epilogue #oweek2025

The moon watches. Or the Goddess watches, through the moon. The story Dia was told is misremembered—or rather, told in broken halves.

When Bibijaan asked—
and the Goddess cried—

and the gemstone appeared in the earth the very next day. And it twinkles now again, because it's angry. It's cut into her palm, red and bright, because it's—

Hours later, someone picks up some scattered pieces of the necklace's broken chain. They, too, agree with Dia. That she is meant for something else. Not the Goddess's plans, but someone's.

They place a tiny lapis lazuli into the ground where the two girls fought—conspicuous but not obvious. They know that, come morning, Dia will see.