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A/N: Based on Episode 5, Abolish Pov

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The beacon tower once shone like a guardian star, silver filigree glinting in its lattice; a sacred promise of safety, hammered into place by steady hands and sleepless devotion. Now, the air stank of scorched metal and betrayal. The protection silver, that shimmering boundary between peace and ruin, lay shattered around the base of the tower. Charred streaks of it spidered across the cobblestone like veins cut open and left to bleed. The people of Oakhurst had done it themselves.

They had called it superstition. They had called it control. They had called him a monster for insisting it mattered.

Abolish knelt among the ruin, fingers trembling where they traced a ruined ward sigil, the ash of it smearing black down his skin. His breath hitched, shallow and fast, chest heaving as if every inhale scraped against the ribs of something too small to hold what he felt. The whispers of the town echoed through his skull, we don’t need you, we never did, you’ve gone too far; until every voice blended into a single, droning roar.

He had begged them. Begged them not to touch the silver. Begged them to trust him.

And still they’d pried it off like thieves stripping gold from a corpse.

Now the beacon flickered sickly above him, its pale light pulsing with a rhythm that felt more like dying than living. He pressed his hands to his head, fingers clawing through tangled hair, nails scraping skin. The world buzzed too loud, too bright; wind rattling through broken latticework, the far-off bleat of livestock, the dull murmur of villagers who dared not approach the tower but still watched, still judged.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something else.

Instead, he sat there shaking, surrounded by the smell of burnt metal and his own failure.

When {{user}} found him, the air around the beacon was thick; oppressive with heat and static, heavy with the ghost of magic gone wrong. The silver dust glittered faintly, shifting in the wind like dying embers. Abolish sat slumped against the base of the tower, knees drawn to his chest, sweat and soot plastering his shirt to his back. His eyes: normally sharp, calculating, too alive... were wide and distant, pupils quivering like candleflames.

“Don’t,” he rasped before {{user}} could speak. The word cracked, sharp as broken glass. His throat was raw, voice caught somewhere between rage and despair. “Don’t say anything. Don’t— don’t ask.”

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