25. Tesia's Resolve - Epilogue 2

Title: Resolve (Arc End)

(Posted Earlier because this was supposed to be yesterday, but I just did not have the energy for editing after work so you get it earlier than 7 PM EST. It's a bit on the beefier side, but it's the end of an arc so I went a bit wild)

Ryg’s POV:

One step after the other, as you have always done do not show them any openings, and do not let them see how weak you have become, pain is nothing you haven’t dealt with before, everything is dependent on them believing that you are still a threat. The moment they see blood they will come and destroy everything that everyone sacrificed themselves for, but for all the levels of damnation, I am seriously getting too old for this shit.

Ryg thought as she kept taking one step at a time, ignoring the blaring pain in every joint of her body that wanted to make her curl down on the floor and cry. After her little essence display in front of Dezra, her body started to protest against the exertion, after all, overcoming the Arcanium dampening effect was not something that could be easily achieved, and with Ryg’s aging body, it took even more of an effort to get over the hurdle.

She tried to think of anything that could distract her from the burning stabbing pain that was starting to take over every one of the joints in her body, this meant that she went into her memories, reminiscing the last 30 years or so of her life, like every old person usually did which was something she hated, after all, she wasn’t truly THAT old.

Ryg had walked these hallways for longer than she had walked the outside world at this point. Thinking back to when she had been incarcerated at the age of 30 and comparing it now to her 63 years, she could feel the weight of the years like how a horse felt when carrying more bags than it could handle.

The last decade had felt like a nice vacation compared to the previous two, sadly there was barely anyone left besides her and a few of the administrators that knew what a few of them had sacrificed to obtain even this little amount of stability. If the current prisoners thought that conditions now were severe, they would have most likely soiled their pants under the regime of the previous warden, since they had treated this place as little more than a slave camp. It was she and a few comrades who were able to get a few rights in place, after all, who would fight for the dregs of Aliztheans who were considered the worst that the world had to offer.

Finish Reading in DA post: https://www.deviantart.com/zernasss/art/25-Tesia-s-Resolve-End-Epilogue-2-Resolve-1032085848