Vesperia - Raven - Candlelight

[lavendre]

Title: Promise
Author: lavendre
Canon: Vesperia
Spoilers: Major for Raven's novel, Empty Mask
Characters/pairings: Raven
Rating: PG
Warning: Rather dark.

Damuron didn't cherish his luck.

If there was a difference between dying, and then real, permanent death, he wouldn't have known, because it had happened all too quickly—and when he was finally able to stare past the irritating blur swarming his eyes, past the radiance that had to be her–

Canary was already gone.

When he woke, he assumed himself to be dead, too.

I won't abandon you, he had told her—but now, bathed in a lantern's glow, and feeling an uncomfortably heavy weight embedded in his chest—it was the one promise between them he hadn't been able to keep.

Comments

[lynndyre]

This is interesting, I should read more on Raven's backstory novel.

[lavendre]

Thank you! Raven is a really intriguing character to me.

[walking_forward]

Ouch, I remember that scene from the summary and reading this made things all the more traumatic for Damuron for me. >_<

The whole not leaving each other's side bit did not hit me until this. Poor Raven, maybe that's another thing you can put on the list of why he hated his existence afterwards.

Excellent piece.

[lavendre]

Canary/casey's death had to be one of the saddest things I've read. Raven completely and utterly adored her. My heart broke over the summary when he realized she was gone. ;-;

Thanks. And yes, Raven's list of tragedies shall be forever growing at this rate. /shot