A P E X
N E T H E R W O R L D
This...was simply too much for Isley to bear.
In the whirlwind that was his life of late, it seemed as though there was no shortage of heartache. To be condemned by virtue of his blood - scorned by his very heritage for bearing the Force - was agony in of itself. Yet this? This made crucifixion by the Death Watch seem like a Summer's Dream. This made his own suffering...his own choking on ash as he departed this world...seem like chaff on the wind. To hear this his child had been taken. Nay. Stolen from this world cut through to his very soul. There were no wails that could convey his sorrow. There were no tears that could display his pain.
There was only action.
He could not sit idly by and lose her again. He could not learn of this and fail her again. He failed to see her walk her first steps. He failed to be there when she cut her first tooth, or babbled her first words. He crusaded while she scraped her knees and learned what it meant to be alive. He was an abysmal father - absent in every highlight that cultivate Deneve into the woman she was. But, he tried - by the gods did he try. After missing every graduation and birthday, he tried in vain to make up for lost time. He tried to buy her love. He tried to train her. He tried to do everything he could to prove he was worthy of her love and time.
But when she needed him the most...when Death stared her in the face, he wasn't there.
He failed, yet again.
But this time, he could make up for it.
This time, all those years of swimming in the abyss would pay off. By the Force and by his Will did he tear open the veil. The spirits languished against his intrusion - wailing viciously as he stepped into their domain. Above, the skies were crimson and wept literal blood as rain. Below, the ground was as flesh and squelched as he moved ever forward. Here, the Force was not his ally. Here, he was but a man. But he knew what to do. He just had to find her first. And so he wandered the Blood Wastes of the Netherworld.
And so a father searched for his child.
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