Natira's Crucible and Gift

[Vela Nanashi]

Yeah Natira cares about her own mind, and does not really see most other people as people fully at least.

The cataclysm ripped a hole into the far realms where that entity comes from, where dimensions ripple through each other in waves and the entity fell into a limited rigid reality, that is only very slightly bendy, and yeah it is utterly alien to it. Also intense emotions are tasty to it, but it was not what it fed on back home, but it likes that in its new reality. Also it likely can't think clearly due to being forced to compact itself into threeish dimensions, and one dimension it can only fall in one direction in (time), back home it could even have its own dimensions to expand into.

Yeah Natira is in a very bad place currently.

As for next part, you will see when you read it Glad you enjoyed

[Claire]

Not in a million years would I have guessed that ending, but it feels weirdly fitting for Natira. But what surprised me even more is that I'm leaving this story feeling sad and thinking of its ending as tragic.

Natira being so starved for love that she ends up creating a new partner, carefully limiting his abilities, infusing him with a past lover's memories and fake memories, only to then immediately manipulate him and alter his memories even further when he sleeps, is just incredibly sad. More than anything in the story, that ending made me feel for her. Everything in her life feels so artificial. I wonder whether she's truly as fulfilled as she claims to be.

I would really like to see a story about Natira forming a genuine connection to someone she didn't create or alter and control with magic to fit her needs/preferences.

Very sad, very tragic ending. Did not see that coming, but it fits well with everything the story has shown for Natira before.

Upgraded my rating from 2 to 3 points. Congratulations, Vela, for actually writing this in less than a month! That's something I definitely couldn't do. It was a wild ride as always, but also had an underlying sense of melancholy that I don't feel that often in your writing.

[Vela Nanashi]

Yeah... Natira's whole world was nearly utterly wiped out, including most life on the world, her people except for herself on the world was wiped out, sure there are star elves elsewhere in the universe, but on her world they were wiped out, she is the only survivor, then she was tortured for very many years, her flesh repeatedly being burned away. There was a rape in there too, that resulted in her son. She gets set free, and it is a miracle she chooses to be as nice as she is, but she is not unscathed from all that happened before, in the slightest, she does things to distract herself from all that horror in her past, but then is forced to remember all of it again, over and over again. She is in some ways cursed to continue living by her younger self having created the pearl of unfair advantage, that prevents her from dying. Her creation of an amalgamate male star elf to be her lover is also a distraction, but there is nobody else for her in the world, unlike many of my characters she is very narrow in what kinds of males she wants to have as a lover, she also knows that if she brings attention to her world from the other star elves they will see her son as an abomination, and although she can protect him from extermination, it would take a lot of effort on her part, so she is alone, caring for her wounded world, healing it rather than cleansing it and starting over. For Natira it is an extremely dark, sad, and tragic story, but she also did not give up, and in the end she is victorious, supreme, but very very wounded, scarred, not visibly, but mentally, and she is forced to keep going, forever, and so she will tru to make that bearable, but she is very far from actually being alright.