Lone Star Mountain Pulse

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Khalys' attempted suicide has failed as per this dice roll. She will die if she does not receive immediate medical attention, and depending on the severity of her injuries which will be decided in a later dice roll, she might die even with treatment! This thread is all welcome!

Khalys' body had healed, but her mind had not. Kailoh was all she could think of most days, but every good memory was interrupted with flashbacks to his death. She couldn't take it anymore. She had followed @Arsenio and @Tamar to the vale, to help them with their claim. Their claim... theirs, when it was meant to be hers. It felt like a betrayal. No one had even asked her if she was okay with it.

Tears filled her eyes, and Khalys began to climb slowly out of the vale. Her face was set into a twisted, pained grimace, yellow eyes narrowed and nose wrinkling slightly. She had made her decision. If she could not be with him in the tunnels, she would be with him at the place they had met.

Her legs shook — she was out of the vale but now had to find the place where he had been held. They'd never revisited it, and she did not remember exactly. Eventually, she found herself on a ridge, and there, far below, a glimmer of dull silver, a metal cage caked with rust.

She took a long, deep breath. Counted to ten, even. "Kailoh... I... I'm so sorry." She let her tears fall. She looked out to the horizon, where a brilliant sunrise shone, all golds and pinks against a deep blue sky. It was beautiful.

"I will be with you again." And she jumped. In the few moments before she hit the ground, Khalys felt a sense of peace, a sense of finality. This was it. This... this was the end. She wouldn't have to grieve him anymore. She hit the ground with a sickening thud. Blackness overtook her.