[At first, Lup had just been looking to escape, to run from the pain that cut straight through her nonexistent heart, the betrayal that left her feeling like her entire world was crashing down around her.
But suddenly, that's exactly what was happening. In her world, lich's are bound by powerful, meaningful memories. Their phylactery is never an object, but an emotion. And the last thirty years, since the night she met Barry's eyes and they died hand-in-hand, bonding them through both life and death, their love for each other has kept their sanity's intact with no issue.
Until the Hadriel gods decided to interfere.
Without that emotional anchor, Lup feels herself slipping away and away until there's nothing left but just a feral lich roaming the city, striking out at any living creature in their path. Caedra happens to step onto the scene just as a bolt of red electricity hits a trembling bystander, dropping them instantly, before Lup's attention shifts quickly to the only figure not running from her.
It's impossible to make out any definition beneath her hood, which keeps the former elf in constant shadows, but there's the briefest flash of shining teeth when Lup lifts her head towards Caedra. Proof the lich is grinning.
The other woman makes her attack and Lup shrieks, high-pitched and grating, taking the unexpected hit and briefly stumbling back through the air before she's raising her skeletal hands and allowing them to catch flame. With the bolts of electricity still arcing off of her body and striking out every which way, Lup adds a bit of fire into the mix too, whipping up a fireball and sending it straight at the other woman.]
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But suddenly, that's exactly what was happening. In her world, lich's are bound by powerful, meaningful memories. Their phylactery is never an object, but an emotion. And the last thirty years, since the night she met Barry's eyes and they died hand-in-hand, bonding them through both life and death, their love for each other has kept their sanity's intact with no issue.
Until the Hadriel gods decided to interfere.
Without that emotional anchor, Lup feels herself slipping away and away until there's nothing left but just a feral lich roaming the city, striking out at any living creature in their path. Caedra happens to step onto the scene just as a bolt of red electricity hits a trembling bystander, dropping them instantly, before Lup's attention shifts quickly to the only figure not running from her.
It's impossible to make out any definition beneath her hood, which keeps the former elf in constant shadows, but there's the briefest flash of shining teeth when Lup lifts her head towards Caedra. Proof the lich is grinning.
The other woman makes her attack and Lup shrieks, high-pitched and grating, taking the unexpected hit and briefly stumbling back through the air before she's raising her skeletal hands and allowing them to catch flame. With the bolts of electricity still arcing off of her body and striking out every which way, Lup adds a bit of fire into the mix too, whipping up a fireball and sending it straight at the other woman.]