... they both knew, and yet he drove the spear further. a hush fell between the certainty and the terror. they both knew she could never return.

but he never had to say those words.

the end as she had always known it to pass was hidden and kept within her indifference.
but to accept it... while hands trembled, held firm, as the very first bouts of unease settled, deep and dark.
and with a pyre and the softest sigh,
she then ceased to exist, always.

and he stood before her, and watched when the last breath slid from her bones.

the final scene of duneyrr's story in Sethreich's ( insouciance @ fa ) main arc. sethreich turned and drove his spear through the deer, who is already half dead and dying from a curse/judgement, and finally dies. the pyre is her own spectral flame consuming her.

reddyeno5 @ fa/da helped a little , gave me some direction on refining shading