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"Oh! Hey! You two!" Zacian grinned, tail wagging. "Perfect! I think I found the way to the eye of the storm. Eien is right there! And did you hear me howl? Pretty cool, right? I think that's, like, the best feature of this new body." She grinned, proud. "Hey--get on my back. I think I can sense...

It seemed like the path was getting clearer. Now that the fires of the false village were behind them, and the howling winds of the storm were in a calm patch where they stood, a new sound was clearer. It sounded like... a howl. A rallying cry. Far ahead, on a large rock that oversaw an open...

"Yeah... y'know... I..." Luz tried to say something more. It was obvious what she would say. But the words didn't come. She smiled. The red lights were fading. The core's electricity was almost completely gone. But she wasn't afraid anymore. Because even if Brisa would leave... everyone had to...

Luz was on her knees, sitting up. She leaned against Brisa, holding her breath, if she had any--no. No... she didn't have any. There was no need to fake that anymore, was there? Her bones and her fur and her skin and everything she tried to do to imitate what it meant to be real... And yet...

"Don't... talk t'me... like you know..." Her words were weak, like she only spoke with her breath and no power, no thunder, behind it. She wobbled toward Brisa and swung at her, but the arc was so wide and the movement so telegraphed that a trivial motion would evade it entirely. "I... I'm gonna...

"Where do you think you're going?!" Luz roared, striking Brisa from behind even as she ran. "I can't believe it, now you're destroyin' the village, too?! What kinda idiot...! I... You don't know a damn thing! How can I ever have a future looking like this? If that's even what I'll be! What if...

She blocked the hit with her arms, but the wince couldn't be masked. She pushed back and spread her arms. "Some Eterna bullshit?!" Luz said. She feinted left, then grabbed Brisa by the right arm and slammed her into a wall, breaking clean through the stone. It wasn't reinforced the same way...

"You don't know how long you've been gone, do ya?" Luz asked, her red eyes twisting and narrowing into a harsh glare. "Yer memories, then the new ones I've made. How many thankless days and nights... And then... it's all peaceful. No more duty. You know what they do, then? Drive ya out. Out...

Down the streets and past the smoke, toward the thunder and finally where the screams had gone quiet, Brisa finally happened upon Luz, who spun around to face her with a wide smile. Her eyes were red. Her general colors had become red... "'Course I'm okay," Luz said, and then she pointed toward...

Everything smelled of smoke and fire. Distantly, frantic screams rang out, steam plumed from below as Pokemon tried to put out the flames, and even more of the inferno rose up a while later. Brisa was in the middle of a town square, just next to the gallows. The sky was blackened with smoke and...