[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/t3kp4zp.png[/img][/center] [center] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKpdMKf2cBM]✦【S】【O】【L】【I】【L】【O】【Q】【U】【Y】✦[/url] [i]The moon shone, and she stood alone, bathed in fluorescent fire. Her arms raised towards Diana, entwining in an infinite spiral, caressing the face of the heavens even as slender fingers grasped nothing. The maiden and the moon, separated by the vastness of distance. But the Heavenly Muses, faceless and flowing, saw the offering and took it, nine celestial flowers twirling around her as moonlight bent and twirled, as her earthly garments dissolved into Edenic dress.[/i] 𝔖𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡. 𝔖𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡. 𝔖𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡. [i]And yet, each step upon the moonrose staircase cast more light upon the starless void.[/i] 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔨. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔤𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔨𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔡𝔬𝔰𝔠𝔬𝔭𝔢. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰. [i]She twirled at the insufficient peak, the Edenic fabric dissolving in starfire. Her arms unravelled like the blooming of a rose, and sparkling sand, lunar dust, fell from the moon, sifting through the gaps of her cupped hands. The staircase shattered and, arching her back against the tyranny of gravity, she fell into a garden of roses, iron vines tearing into flesh.[/i] 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔟𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔫. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔰𝔪 𝔬𝔣 𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔢. [i]From the rose garden, the maiden knight resurfaced, clad in Silverlight and Starspace.[/i] ✦【I】 【A】【M】 【R】【E】【B】【O】【R】【N】✦[/center] In the shadow of the alleyway, she sparkled, but in the light of the sun, she shone. A jeweled rosary hung from a lacy collar. A sapphire rose bloomed opposite of her heart. A living sword in one hand, a living chain in another. And her midnight eyes, burning every bright. She breathed. She lunged. The sword flashed and tore out the ethereal heart of a spirit, dispersing it in an instant. The dancer pivoted, coiled, and sprung out, another flicker ending another grudge. Fake flowers bloomed, drawing the attention of all, and within that moment of misdirection, her chains flared out, ivy-metal wrapping around more spirits and pulling them in. One. Two. Three. Four. Ectoplasm dripped onto the silvered blade, and she flicked it away with heroic disdain, her long hair billowing in a wind of her own making. That picture-perfect pose was held for three seconds, but before the extermination could continue, a sharp pain drive itself into her mind, her nameless Patron alerting her of the presence of another. A scraping of a file against her ring finger: the descent of a monster girl, clad in Darkness and bearing the wings of a bat. In the breadth of a second, the spirits dispersed, scrambling in different directions and leaving the bloodied and broken to their misery and their cries. In the breadth of a second, those cries were silenced by the living shadows that surrounded them, sealing them all in black coffins. In the breadth of a second, Amaryllis felt the creeping of decay and death, as the sword in her grasp hummed like a tuning fork. Anticipation? Anxiety? It mattered not. That monster was an enemy. The streets were silent now except for the cries of distant sirens, rusted petals dancing like falling leaves. A flourish of silver, a click of her heels, and the Knight of Rose straightened her back, offhand placed against her lower back as she leveled the point of her beloved rapier onto the newcomer. [color=778899][b]“Art thou the villain of this tragedy? Nay, but thou art equally as foul, a vulture that would rob the bereaved of even a body to bury, a hyena that would deny the injured their opportunity to seize another day.”[/b][/color] If this was a moonlit night, she’d be in perfect form, but the radiance of sunshine reflecting off her mirror-polished blade was beautiful as well. [color=778899][b]“Cease and desist thy plundering, wretched thief, lest the only mark you leave upon this world be the rust upon my sword.”[/b][/color] That alien tongue rasped against her spine. Her Patron offered five seconds for an answer. Amaryllis will give her three. [@Izurich]