OH DEATH | Joining.

[Luciferr]

A Z R A Y E L

[an inspired title I know, slightly rushed apologies.]

Considering they had scattered to the four corners of the universe after- well, after certain catastrophic events, it’s quite surprising how quickly they can seemingly find each other again - Although quick in this context is more like centuries - but given they’d all lost hope of ever seeing each other again, the long searches were more manageable.

He spins himself back into existence some thousand miles above the planet below - white-black-and-blue, the reaper, the pale one, the star eater, a litany of names and titles, but he is Azrayel, as his mother and father named him and as his siblings know him, called back again to the closing distance of a beacon below - he knows father is there, on what would be considered a backwater world - and he knows Fen is also somewhere roaming around down there - he can’t miss that fire-steel presence like he can’t miss the void-shadow in the island regions.

White eyes shift away - though the way in which a cold shadow brushes past him is all he needs to know in greeting - and razor-white-on-black wings unfurl in multiples of dagger-wraith feathers and he descends.

It’s some time later the dragon - or what looks like a dragon - lingers on the borders of a murky swamp, a white-black shadow in the green-dark scenery, somehow pristine even with the murk - he knows his brother once resided here and it’s enough to know Fen is somewhere out there even if isn’t here - but he is curious about this group his brother had seemingly stayed with for so long, it warrants staying - for now.

So he waits,

© MADI