Eternal

You don’t want to risk heading back to the temple, it’s bound to be crawling with new eternals.

“Talia, don’t go to the temple! This way!” you exclaim grabbing her arm.
“What? We need to go where Dendrin will protect us the most!”
“He’s not helping us now! Let’s gnnnt!”

While you were standing around arguing you catch two arrows to the back and then another to your side. You’re down and Talia attempts to drag you into cover before cloaking the pair of you. Cloak or not, the arrows continue to be fired in your vicinity, won’t be long before more find their mark or worse the rest of the eternal chasing you catch up.

“We need to get out of here and back to the sanctuary now! Can you stand up?” Talia asks.
“Probably, but I’m not going to be going too fast all shot full of arrows, and with this pain I’m not sure how long I’m going to be able to upkeep the shadow magic. Look, just go on without me, I’ll figure out something.”
“I’m not doing that! I already left you once when you needed help, I’m not doing it again!”
“Well this situation isn’t looking good, you realize that right?”
“I know.”

You and Talia look into each other’s eyes and briefly kiss. You had some good times; your only regret is you won’t have any more with her.

The arrows stop as more eternals start swarming the vicinity. While one of them is barking orders to find you, Talia decloaks and cleaves his head in starting the battle off. Despite your limited mobility, you manage to throw some of your attackers off their game by fighting low to the ground. A couple of them go down by your hand, but ultimately there are too many of them and you feel a crushing mace blow to your head followed by a blade to your chest.

As your sight begins to fade, you see Talia still giving the eternals a good fight. Hopefully she’ll make it back to the sanctuary like she wanted to in the first place.

You won’t.
End Of Story