[Side Story] Barren Lands of Winter Surgence (1)

The cold blooms into the eternal winter, blossoming out of the barren lands of the snow-covered plains. There, a young woman walked ever so lonely through the fields with only a single sword in hand, frozen at its core.

"Hah... Hah..." As her breath hushed through the clouds of ice, she continued to press forward. "Please... Survive..." Muttering out under her breath as if it was her last words, the young woman's movement slowly stopped as the world around her began blackening into darkness.

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Was this fate? Or was it the upbringing of my own decisions?

Time and time again, I had desperately attempted to find the path that I had set off to take.

To see what I was meant for, in this lonesome world called barren.

Yet... Was it all for nought?

The ties that I've made... Everything was but futile in the means of judgement.

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-[ (Side Story) Barren Lands of Winter Surgence ]-

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