[open] don't close the coffin yet; any

[Agetta]

Agetta is lost in blissful thoughts when she spots him. The daydreams about the foal she is carrying come crashing down and she feels the anger that she felt on the beach rise up in her. She should just walk away, should just continue living in this new half-life avoiding Atrox. It had been easy to forget that he existed here once they had stepped into the afterlife and everything that had happened since. She had spoken with death, had the love of her life returned to her, been to the Deserts, gotten pregnant, and been given some strange and confusing gifts since the last time she had seen the wretched creature standing beneath the tree. A lot has happened in such a short time. Agetta knows that it would be wise to turn away. Although she is aware with how she has already started to swell up with her pregnancy, there are some wounds she cannot seem to help but pick at. There is happiness in her life again but the anger feels so much better than the emptiness of being lost and she still craves any emotion she can get. She eyes the two spirits nearby, wondering if they are tied to the monster or if they are simply there by chance. In this world where the dead are returning, it’s certainly not easy to say one way or the other. She does not enter underneath the tree but stands a few strides back from the dripline - her dark eyes burning. Would that Death had taken memories of him and freed her from this pain that has not dulled at all over the years. Agetta cannot possibly know that worse memories had been taken from her, that Atrox is not the villain in her story. Far from it. “Couldn't you have just stayed in the afterlife?” we are made of starstuff

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