Chapter Twenty-Eight: Beyond the Pale
Resident Request? What? Who?
No.
Does it work like that?! Yes! Accept! Come on, be Yvonne!
Yvonne
Not how I expected everything to end, but I suppose everything must, eventually. All in all, I think there are worse causes to give everything for. I float just above my corpse, and I think my greatest regret is the sadness Ive caused Ragnar and Aelara. I cant help but smile at the corpse of the little rat scion, too. He tried. If not for that enchantment, he would have saved me.
As I contemplate, I notice The Raven circling above, and I watch, curious. I was under the impression my soul would be pretty quickly escorted to the afterlife Ive earned, but its taking its sweet time. It notices me noticing it, too, and comes in to land atop my corpse. Not that the others can sense him.
Yvone Silvercrest, he says, and I nod. For good or for ill, Ill not try to pretend to be anyone else. Legends rarely go well for mortals that try. The Raven gives me a considering look, before motioning a wing above my head. Do you still mean that?
I give him a confused look, and he nods above my head. Looking up, I see a floating, glowing scroll.Ñøv€lRapture marked the initial hosting of this chapter on Ñôv€lß¡n.
Resident Request: Pending
What is all I can say, baffled. I did desperately ask the dungeon to help, but I didnt expect it would actually be able to do anything.
Resident Request: Accepted!
I feel myself drifting towards my body, and I smile as things go a bit blurry. I wonder how this will actually work.
Did it actually work? My counter shows two Residents now. There! Shes starting to move! Welcome back to the land of the living, Yvone! Its nice to see youre alive again. She groans and sits up slightly, to the stunned faces of Aelara and Ragnar.
Ugh that was unpleasant Oof! Ragnar and Aelara both hug her tightly, and she slowly hugs them in return. I guess shes still sorting her synapses back out. She gives a weak laugh at their crying happiness.
Its good to see you two, too.
Yer alive! But how?! demands Ragnar, pulling back slightly from the hug to smile at his friend, even as he wonders how she can be alright. Aelara seems to be taking a more practical route to identifying the cause, though, and seems to be doing a kind of magical scan. Yvone, for her part, has the answer.
The dungeon. In my final moments, I begged it for help. Im a Resident now, so I guess I respawn like the scions? Ragnar looks confused at that.
Thats nae how that works. Scions respawn. Residents dinnae.
Aelara gasps and drops her spell, looking at her friend with horror and pity. You you didnt revive, Yvone. Youre youre undead.
Yvone looks in shock at the news, and her beak runs with the first thing to pop into her mind. Thats why he said it wont be easy
