He's already dazed before the explosion. Trying to formulate a plan. He ignores Nappa's mocking and taunting and rolls over onto his stomach. He'll crawl to Zelda if that's what he has to do. He'll crawl and—
The light that floods the cabin causes Darin to look up. Was that light Zelda? No...No, Zelda's magic was golden. It was warm. This wasn't her. This was something—
When the cabin explodes, Darin clamps his eyes shut. The force is enough to send him tumbling end over end closer to Nappa. Stunned, he rolls back over onto his stomach...and finds the cabin completely blown away.
The color drains from his face. Horror doesn't even begin to describe what he feels. He doesn't even have the wherewithal to wonder if something else had happened. If Zelda was alright.
Something flutters into his field of vision like a falling leaf in autumn. He scrambles over to it, recognizing it almost immediately.
Cloth from Zelda's clothes. Singed.
"No..."
It's the only word he can formulate right now as he lays there on his stomach, clutching the remains of the woman he loves.
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The light that floods the cabin causes Darin to look up. Was that light Zelda? No...No, Zelda's magic was golden. It was warm. This wasn't her. This was something—
When the cabin explodes, Darin clamps his eyes shut. The force is enough to send him tumbling end over end closer to Nappa. Stunned, he rolls back over onto his stomach...and finds the cabin completely blown away.
The color drains from his face. Horror doesn't even begin to describe what he feels. He doesn't even have the wherewithal to wonder if something else had happened. If Zelda was alright.
Something flutters into his field of vision like a falling leaf in autumn. He scrambles over to it, recognizing it almost immediately.
Cloth from Zelda's clothes. Singed.
"No..."
It's the only word he can formulate right now as he lays there on his stomach, clutching the remains of the woman he loves.
No...