A Goddess Wearing Away

"I...I see..."

She reached out lightly to pat Nyx's shoulder, even though Palutena herself was still...trying to ease up her own emotions.

"I hope it gets easier on us both ..."

A tired sigh left her.

"I haven't even figured out how to stop blaming myself for it."

"I feel like I don't even know what to do anymore..."

She trailed off, frowning as she rested beside the other, "Your husband too...? I'm...so sorry to hear that."

She exhaled deeply, her eyes still watery from all the thoughts in her head.

"I relive that day every single day, it feels."

"Just...still mourning my son. My own shortcomings cost him his life. And I can't ever change that..."

She sighed, curling herself up more into a ball.

"It's been so long but I still hear it like yesterday."

Throws a single solitary baby carrot into a bowl.

you're doing a good job despite everything that happened."

She exhaled slowly, closing her eyes.

"... I'm...proud of you. For whatever that may count, given the trials you've endured."

Palutena couldn't help but smile the slightest bit. Her eyes were still extremely watery, despite her attempts to clear them.

"...a miraculous encounter. I can understand why that would lift your faith back up. I'm so glad you were able to find that path. I know we just met but I think

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{hi I'm Jarod 19 and I don't know how to read.

also man, I made a sad Palu

"Where do I even go now-?"

She's looking rough, just sitting on a lonely bench by a bustling street. Humanity ever alive, at which she was thankful.

But sitting here alone, not sporting any of her usual outfit. Simply a dark blue gown, barely even shoes.

"... what's the point anyway."

{i am: having an interesting time

{also it's nice to meet you all the same

{THAT'S SO BANGER

{o fuck hi--- 👀

"A son..."

Her voice trembled a bit, and she bit her lip, "O-Oh I...I hope that doesn't mean that somewhere, somehow, someone else is suffering because..."

She couldn't bear to finish the sentence, but... She did slowly manage to nod.

"...I would love to hear about him. If ...if that's okay."

{okie 💯

{okay this sounds fascinating

{well then.

{do I sense lore

{I'm already baffled that someone muses him this makes that feel weirder

{why is this such a foreboding sentence to me

He told me about it the whole day before... But then I lost both of them in one fell swoop. One failure of myself. I hope that wherever their souls fell away to, Underworld or otherwise, they're together peacefully there."

She sighed, hugging her knees to her chest and rocking slightly. Just slightly. Side, to side, back again. A metronome, lost in her own head. But, she smiled. Slightly. Bittersweetly.

"...my sweet son loved his other half too. He wanted to tell him, after the fight.

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"You have a sister-? I wonder if mine had a sister...I haven't heard, last I checked my Underworld's status was...not so progressive as yours. The grief that permeates it from his wife...I can feel it even in Skyworld. It's a terrible reminder that Hades went way off the deep end..."

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{sup everyone I'm gonna die from feels and yelling, bye

{WHAT THE FUCK, THIS BADASS LORE IS BLESSED I'M SO ---

/Flips chairs

/ Flips tables

/ SCREAMS -??????

"Skyworld quickly felt so terribly cold without him. It's a hole that I can't sew shut and..."

A long, painful sigh.

"...I held him in his final breaths, I would have taken myself out with him if I had caused that finality..."

"Hearing... hearing that your Palutena stabbed you makes me feel so ill..." She managed, her lip itself trembling as she tried to compose herself, "-my Pit was... everything to me. My dearest son, my cherished captain..."

Another choked sob.

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{violence is always the answer but bro I didn't expect to unveil Palutena's loss this fast but here the fuck we are

I did not expect THE fucking deity Pit of all things.

She clapped her hand over her mouth, finally crumbling - almost literally. Collapsing off her feet, sinking to the ground, a soft cry leaving her.

"...it was the emptiest victory in the universe."

Palutena looked away, frowning deeply. By now, her tears were in freefall.

"We did something similar. We saved a cannon too... But I couldn't charge it in time, nor could I save him from Hades. All I could do...was finish what he started. What I should have thanked him more for..."

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{tis fine

also yeah as many times as I failed this fight, this was fitting.