Synopsis: The Crimson Autumn

For two long centuries I was stuck in a scorching summer. Unending. Unchanging.Too bright and too hot, all color and feeling leached away. My life was a monotony of dry heat that left me parched and apathetic.

Jasey was my crimson autumn.

She was all brisk breezes, fiery color, and fierce beauty. But as with any autumn, that beauty was born of death. The leaves turn to fire because they are preparing to fall. I hold her in my arms, and know that she is dying, know that she won't last the night. When that last leaf falls, and her last heartbeat sounds, the beauty and color of my world will die along with her.

I cannot keep this autumn. I can't even return to the colorless summer. My apathy is gone, she has made me feel and care again. When Jasey dies, there will be only a bleak, eternal winter.

The pain is already unbearable, but I'll endure it gladly. Loving her was worth it.