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Returning to the ruins of the Dome, Mari encountered Jupiter. She fell to her knees before the Lawgiver, baring her neck to the Solar. Curious, Mari asked why she did not offer resistance. Jupiter's only answer was that it was clearly Fate's design that the Maidens fall by her hand, and thus there was no point in delaying the inevitable. Neck still bared, she offered a dagger to Mari, claiming that it would kill her quickly and cleanly, were she to put all her strength behind the blow. Mari weighed the weapon in her hand, pondering the decision to strike for long moments, before driving it hilt-deep into her own neck. As she expected, Jupiter had tangled their fates, and while every wound dealt to Jupiter would be visited on Mari in full, she had not considered that the reverse was also true. Mari left the corpse of Jupiter, hoist by her own petard, behind her, as she approached the remains of the Dome.
 
Returning to the ruins of the Dome, Mari encountered Jupiter. She fell to her knees before the Lawgiver, baring her neck to the Solar. Curious, Mari asked why she did not offer resistance. Jupiter's only answer was that it was clearly Fate's design that the Maidens fall by her hand, and thus there was no point in delaying the inevitable. Neck still bared, she offered a dagger to Mari, claiming that it would kill her quickly and cleanly, were she to put all her strength behind the blow. Mari weighed the weapon in her hand, pondering the decision to strike for long moments, before driving it hilt-deep into her own neck. As she expected, Jupiter had tangled their fates, and while every wound dealt to Jupiter would be visited on Mari in full, she had not considered that the reverse was also true. Mari left the corpse of Jupiter, hoist by her own petard, behind her, as she approached the remains of the Dome.
  
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Saturn was there waiting for her, slim daiklave in hand, violet eyes glittering with tears. He had left - ''commanded'' her and her sisters to die, she whispered, and her only consolation was that she could take it out on Mari. The Lawgiver curtly replied that the Sun had much to answer for, and right now, Saturn was simply another obstacle keeping her from so. The Maiden of Endings fought with suicidal abandon, knowing that ''samsara'' had abandoned them all that day, and that even if she won, there would be nothing but shadows and dust for her to return to. Perhaps it was a mercy that Mari ended her pitiful existence with her own blade. She certainly smiled in that evanescent moment before she dispersed in a zephyr of violet Essence.
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Saturn was there waiting for her, slim daiklave in hand, violet eyes glittering with tears. He had left - ''commanded'' her and her sisters to die, she whispered, and her only consolation was that she could take it out on Mari. The Lawgiver curtly replied that the Sun had much to answer for, and right now, Saturn was simply another obstacle in getting to do so. The Maiden of Endings fought with suicidal abandon, knowing that ''samsara'' had abandoned them all that day, and that even if she won, there would be nothing but shadows and dust for her to return to. Perhaps it was a mercy that Mari ended her pitiful existence with her own blade. She certainly smiled in the evanescent moment before she dispersed in a zephyr of violet Essence.
  
 
Having taken the mantles of all five of the Maidens into herself, Mari was suddenly aware of the true nature of what she had done. Were she still the kind, naive, innocent girl she had been before her Nee-san had turned to darkness, she might have dedicated the rest of her long life to repairing the damage she had done. But she had the blood of Shrike, countless gods and elementals, as well as that of five Incarnae on her hand now, and the only thing that meant anything to her any more was holding the Sun accountable for all the lives she had taken in His name. So she marched on; and in her wake, the natural order of things began to fray and shatter.
 
Having taken the mantles of all five of the Maidens into herself, Mari was suddenly aware of the true nature of what she had done. Were she still the kind, naive, innocent girl she had been before her Nee-san had turned to darkness, she might have dedicated the rest of her long life to repairing the damage she had done. But she had the blood of Shrike, countless gods and elementals, as well as that of five Incarnae on her hand now, and the only thing that meant anything to her any more was holding the Sun accountable for all the lives she had taken in His name. So she marched on; and in her wake, the natural order of things began to fray and shatter.

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