Cruel Fate

[Heuschrecke]

Submission.

Her will to resist had grown weak. She had little left to fight with while each death left her a little more drained than the last. Nothing she did provided solace, no ending gave her a way out. All's she had was the ill-fated offer to be a servant to a species that held her captive. Little more existed than the desire to give up and accept the new path she was to be forced on. They had broken her, completely, not in her mind and within her body's tolerance of torture. It was something the presence within her brother sensed too, though chose to be silent and wait.

In her last tormented vision, she found herself surrounded by the endless sea of sand. Deprived of fluids and sustenance left her drained. There was nothing but the heat radiating both from above and below. Her hands sunk into the grainy sea, beginning to slip into the desert itself. She couldn't resist it, not with how weakened she was. Gradually, she sank lower and lower, on her back as though the sand were more like water and she was a little too heavy to float without motion.

Moments passed, her thoughts screamed at her to surrender, but the words struggled to escape. Until only her head remained above the surface of the sand-sea. Her eyes closed, half wincing as her vocals strained against the heated pressure. Eventually, before the sand filled her open mouth, she managed to utter out her surrender. "I submit..."

As she did, both her surroundings and her pain dissipated into nothing once more.