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“Cover me, I’m taking the shot.” Nock, Aim, Loose. The arrow hits the target as if flown there by a sharp-eyed hawk, dead center of the eyes. Valeri cocks xer head when back behind cover, saying “Y’know, is it just me or is this too easy?”
“No. No, don’t you dare say it. I will gut you personally with one of Ajal’s knives if you do.”
“I’m just saying-“
“Stop saying. Stop thinking, even. Cover me again.” Nock, Aim, Loose. “Sorry Val, I’m just… I’m so mad! I thought I fixed all this by breaking the cycle but, but…”
“No, I know” the Warlock sighs, “I feel you. Ariadne’s going to have a fit when she hears about this…”
“Shit, yeah. Oof, I do not wanna be there for that conversation…”
Behind xer helmet, Valeri cocks a sick grin. “You know I’m going to make you, right?” It takes a moment, but Amyr simply stops what she was doing and turns to her friend. “I hate you.”
The deeper the pair went, the odder it became—in particular, the introduction of Stasis-based Hive and Taken weaponry jarred them, although not enough to keep the two Guardians from summarily executing the miscreants with efficiency. Finally, they tracked Osiris to the underbelly of the Harbinger’s Seclude, to a little sanctuary facing a waterfall. Neither were prepared for what happened next.
“I-uh-“
“Is that who I think it is, Val? Val?!”
“Hhnnnnhohgoddessyes!” The flash of light cut off any other comments.
Valeri and Amyr sat through Saint and Mara bickering, the only comment from their new peanut gallery coming during Savathûn’s posturing—Amyr turns to Valeri and whispers, “You never said Savathûn was so sassy.” The only reply is a hushed “Well I was a little occupied…”
As the two leave the estranged siblings to, perhaps, reconnect a little under the watchful eye of the Queen of Lies, their Ghosts peek out from their metascapes. Hildegard turns her eye upon Sylvangale—the latter doing the Ghost equivalent of thumb-twiddling—and asks, “Sylva, did you not say she had a huge-“ her words are cut off by Valeri very frantically flailing at the two of them,
“Ah ah! Shoosh!”