{ashes; ashes; one falls down.} sage v tamron day 7

The tea had been welcoming but after a few hours—

I’m back home and Harbinger had just thrown the ball to Crusader and I’m running after it because I want to join them too but my small legs can only carry me so far and—

The dust that surrounded me was familiar, the taste of salt lingering on my skin on my face on my tongue—

A purple elephant stands in front of me, his trunk moving side to side and his lips move and words are coming out of his mou—doelephantsevenspeak?—and he asks me about Affron. “Is Affron another elephant?” I ask him. “Because I think he killed Lightning.” Mixed with the dust had been long legs much longer than this elephant’s, but it was an elephant nonetheless. “I’ll kill that Affron. I will.”

And the purple elephant morphed into a blue orb with a human shape and I knew what it meant—

“Fallon, you’re here with me now.” I can only look at her with longing and sadness and guilt but my head spins as I reach into nothingness to keep me standing. She has something in her hand and I edge towards to see what’s in her palm. I stop with a halt as soon as I see the little blue object in her hand. “You kept it,” I whisper to her. She nods her head before raising her hand.

Beads of sweat started to pour down my face as—

She brings the koala down on her and I look at her with a confused look on my face. “Are we starting to play now? I brought fun things to play with.” And I reach into my pocket—

The snow ball rests in my hand as I throw it at Lightning’s face.

”Let’s play, Lightning!”

But my hand doesn’t quite let go—

Or maybe it does.


[Tamron attacks self ; Big Foot Feet snowball]

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projectile

[Bruised Head; 3.5 dmg]

My head ached as if I had hit it against another’s skull or a wall, but I couldn’t recollect—

And the purple elephant is in front of me again. He is waving his trunk around and making no sense but I see him hit himself. “That looks like fun,” I say. I grin as I repeat his movements with my own toy.

My heart pounded quickly as I could feel my grip on the snowball start to loosen. Fear washed over me as I gripped it tighter and—

Harbinger throws a snowball and it lands on my face, my grin melting the ice off of my face. “Not fair! You had a head start!” But fairness means nothing in this game and I throw my own snowball before Harbinger can try again. Just as I watch mine successfully make contact with Harbinger, I can feel myself tackled by Crusader. We start laughing as we wrestle in the snow—

“Take this!” I yell as I swing my arm once again.



[Tamron attacks Sage; Big Foot Feet snowball]

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projectile

[Gash/Bruised Head ; 4.5 dmg]

Filler for now



[Tamron attacks ??; Big Foot Feet snowball]

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projectile
[Miss (lost projectile) ; 0.0 dmg]

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projectile
[Gash/Bruised Head ; 4.5 dmg]

The purple elephant keeps dancing around me and playing with his trunk—

I could see my snowballs landing on his head but instead of exploding into soft white powder, they would bounce off his head like they were more ice than snow.

“Harbinger! It’s not exploding like it should be!” I tug at the edge of Harbinger’s shirt—he’s already so much taller than me—with my small hands and look up at him expectantly. “Can you fix them?”

Then I felt the cool metal make contact with my hip and I twirled around to find the source.

It’s Lightning making a bright streak across my hip to remind me that he is there. “Thank you, Lightning, I almost forgot you were here at this party too. Did you bring Chaos? I have a snowball for her too.”

My hand held onto the tan snowball, my nose unable to pick up the stench, as I raised my arm again—

“Here you go, Chaos!” I yell as her form appears in front of me. “It’s been so long since I last saw you. I couldn’t find you when we first entered the arena, but I’m glad you could join us now.”




[Tamron attacks self; Big Foot Feet snowball]

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projectile

[Bruised Head ; 3.5 dmg]

Filler #2


[Tamron attacks Sage; Big Foot Feet snowball]

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projectile

[Bruised Right Thigh ; 2.5 dmg]

My name drew me out of trance, long enough to see a boy standing in front of me who was neither Harbinger nor Lightning. Was this reality in front of me? Or—

I can’t believe she’s talking to me. My words stumbled as I gaped at Elise, the little confidence I already had dissipating at the sight of her. “Ye—yeah, my name is Tamron.”

A memory knocked me backwards as I had to blink twice to finally re-focus. Elise had been very real, that meeting had been very real, but it wasn’t the present. No, the present was filled with death and dying and loss and grief.

“I’ll do whatever it takes to bring you home, Tamron. We’re going to go home as brothers.” Harbinger had clapped my shoulders as he said it, the first time I had seen optimism in his eyes since I spoke up at the reaping. Kirito was nodding in the background, the steel in his eyes reinforced. Salome had been standing next to me—

But she stood next to me no longer, running away from Fallon and I as she watched—

”Why did you do it, Salome? Why would you run away?” She gives me no answer but stares at me sadly. I have a feeling she’s trying to tell me the answer but I can’t—



[Tamron attacks self; Big Foot Feet snowball]

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projectile

[Bruised Left Knee ; 2.5 dmg]

Filler #3; gotta go to work


[Tamron attacks self; Big Foot Feet snowball]

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projectile

[Bruised Right Calf ; 2.0 dmg]