Into the Lament where Brandson is only half a body, bewildered at himself as he cries out for his lost love. Meanwhile Grizeo enters in whole. Seeing the half a body TaKaRan president pleases him to nod before getting bombarded by curses. “Take care of yourself” Grizeo says before wasting no time to lightning travel himself straight for the ice capped mountains.
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Brandson did not expect to be half a body, certainly not expecting himself fading into strings from his open wounds. His desperate cries turning into fear as he feels himself more lost than the figures of remnants berating him. Telling him that he wasted his life and is useless to be here when his lost love died by a Tacet Discord, not by the Lament. His veins want to burst, as his hands tear his last bits of hair. Letting his hair bleed and eye bulge so wide that they can roll off their sockets. Apoplectic, did he become as he is only a head, and a crownless grabbing him by the ear before squeezing him crushed.
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Strings of Brandson that try to flee from the lament are sucked in by a Crownless carrying a vacuum cleaner. Transforming the vacuum into Brandson himself, with his chin being a barrel, nose and lip as a leaf sight and his forehead as a handguard. His body is malformed to that of a grenade launcher with a conscious anger that spits out grenades at every second. But his Crownless owner smacks him senseless before parting the behind and taking out shells from inside the devil’s hole. Giving Brandson both groans of pain and moans of pleasure as he feels his insides getting pulled out and his belly empty.
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At the ice-capped mountains, a blizzard sweeps the cratered mountain side. The tacet field glowing unlike the last he visited, looking for Lim just as he is now. Calling out his twin brother’s name as loud as he can. Figures of Remnants hear him, some running away and some waving their hands. Grizeo runs up to these figures waving their hand, asking where his brother is. Which they point towards other figures running awake. “Lim! Lim!” He calls but muffled to the Crownless who wakes from under the snow sheets. His cries for his brother coming out as eagle screeches. That which the crownless simply walk up and away from its neighbors to lay at a quieter spot.
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Frightened wind and snow howls and pelts for Grizeo to stop chasing the figures. Their dark silhouettes sneezing away his disoriented steps. With one figure being child like that he chases. Bone-chilling cold bites his fingertips. Though, it was a good choice to wear layers of clothing. The blizzard blocking the Lament from turning his body to strings. He whip himself against the blizzard before calling out Lim’s name so loud that the wolf discords heard him. They howl, waking the crownless. But Grizeo has no idea as he enters down a snow structure.
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Or a snow cave, there are no stones. Only sparkly snow and the remnant figure that has the color and form of a child. With curly hair and face that he does not remember if that is how Lim looked like or not. “Lim?”
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“Randon His best friend” the boy says as he taps the snow off his shoulders and gloves. “You can’t run around calling Lim like that. They’re going to find you.”
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Grandon, the name does not ring a bell. “Where is Lim?”
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“Bro, listen what I have to say since I’ve been here longer. And Lim is somewhere out in the blizzard but you cannot go out yet.”
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“I’m going”
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“No, don’t!” Grabbing hold of Grizeo’s arm but gets dragged instead. “They’re going to find you and it’d be the end for both of us.”
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“I have to find Lim and try to get him out of here.”
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“Where did you get that idea from? You can’t get a remnant out in the Lament. They can only stay.”
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“They can’t move around?”
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“Yes, and I specifically told Lim not to. So listen to me for a moment!”
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“…Are you lying?”
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“Why would I lie to someone who is crazy enough to go in and out of the Lament and TURNS OUT it is my best friend’s brother?”
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Grizeo’s eyes observes Randon’s blinking intently, watching how this one feel and look different from the one he has seen. “Are you a remnant?”
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“No,” He answers, pulling Grizeo back into the snow cave as he hears the blizzard dying out. “I’m as good as alive but I realized that I cannot grow, go hungry, or feel anything other than being scared when those scary, human like creatures appear. And I want to get out of here when I heard about you from Lim. So will you listen to me and don’t try to go out there!? Those creatures will see us, and they will kill us! Worse is moving around on the surface without cover!”
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Something metal hisses. Coming closer to the surface directly above their heads. The panting and howling of wolves and, a sharp refraction of light from a scimitar. Randon holds clings on Grizeo’s arm tight. Gesturing a finger to his mouth in telling Grizeo to keep silent. “By the way” he whispers, “tell me if you are hearing or seeing things. And don’t go running around—”
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“Brother?” A remnant calls out from the entrance of the snow cave, but Randon does not hear it. Randon only keeps his arms and body around the arm in trying to keep the young man in place. But Grizeo can see it. Staring back at the remnant and seeing it distort between a crownless and Lim but, he only cares for the latter.
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“Lim?” He softly calls out before pushing down on Randon and loudly call out for the little brother.
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Randon shakes his head, seeing the snow walls of the cave being dug out. A wolf’s snout before their deadly claws. While Grizeo runs for a Crownless that he thinks is Lim. “Right when I told you!” Randon yells before he runs for the young man. Lunging himself to push Grizeo down with his hair ends cut but the purple sword. “Quick, get on your feet!” Rolling the misty eyed Grizeo around before whistling and a pack of snow wolves attack the tall Crownless. “Hey, get up!” snapping his fingers on face.
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But Grizeo does not seem to hear Randon. His hand still reaching out with foggy eyes. Stuck in seeing Lim outside the cave, waving and calling out to him as he yells back.
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“Oh shut up!” Carrying the young man on his small back, heaving himself at the weight of a hundred bricks but he has to, for both to stay alive in the gathering of scary monsters. Randon whistles louder in a strange melody. And the strings cluster with each other, forming wild animals that protects Randon and fights against the discords and a sword wielding Crownless.
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