TESNI from Mu
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Born and raised in London, Tesni attended an all-girl's school until the day when the Cataclysm hit Earth.
A bisexual, pagan Goth, she has few inhibitions and suffers from a crippling mental disorder that has fragmented her personality into sever distinct identities. Confused and alone, she would be dead if it were not for the support of her friend Zoe, who stood by her through all her troubles.
Tesni's journey through the Gate not only increased her physical strength and endurance, but also destroyed the fragile balance of her mind, causing her to go from one personality extreme to the other. She was employed by Jarrif as a soldier and gained many new skills through mental manipulation by the psychic Wraiths, who also made her evil animalistic personality more dominant.
Her battles against Matt Lord and his friends always ended in failure, until her mind finally broke and she brutally murdered Matt's girlfriend Farengezie right in front of his eyes.
The trauma of these events finally took their toll upon Tesni's mind, as she began to return to her senses, as this, her final scene, shows...
TESNI SCENE #1:
Jarrif stood in the shadows of the entrance to Terras, knowing that she would soon come to him. As come to him she did, through the fires at the opening and into the middle of the empty passageway, where she collapsed to her knees, sobbing. She lifted the spear to her throat and was about to kill herself when Jarrif appeared from out of the shadows and stopped her.
"So, finally it is over," he said softly to her cowering form, "The animal within you has unleashed it’s full dominance over you, but your last shed of humanity is trying to stop it in the only way it knows possible,"
Tesni looked up at him with teary eyes, "I want to die, I want it to stop. I don’t want to hurt anyone else, but if I stay alive I won’t be able to stop it. It controls me..."
Jarrif knew what she was talking about, knew that there was no other way to save her, to stop the chaotic, destructive, primitive animal side of her from doing any more damage.
"Before you go, I think there’s something you should see," he said as he removed a PAD from his blue jacket pocket, "A place you need to go." Jarrif activated the device and sent a signal to their base of operations, to signal the opening of a Gate. It opened beside them and Jarrif signalled Tesni to come with him. She stood up and took a deep breath and Jarrif guided her back to the Ark. There in front of them, another Gate had been prepared,
"Go back, back to where you came from..." Jarrif told her, "You will understand why when you get to the other side,"
Tesni walked towards the other Gate, which was about ten metres away, then turned to take one last, sorrowful look at Jarrif, Tesni spoke softly, "Goodbye,"
"Goodbye, and thank-you." he smiled back.
Tesni stepped through the Gate, her last journey through the magical vortexes of light. She stepped out onto the same tropical world she had first woken up on so long ago. But this was a different place to one she had been in, the twin suns still shone fiercely in the sky, but the trees around her were different to the ones she remembered. Then she noticed a simple grave in the ground not more than two metres away. As the Gate closed behind her, she walked forward to look at the hastily made wooden cross that marked the grave’s location. Hung around it was a pendant, on Tesni recognised as belonging to her best friend, Zoe. Taking the small piece of jewellery off of the symbol, she quickly knocked the cross down, hating the beliefs it represented but not once thinking why Jarrif and his people would be using such a religious sign. Tightly clutching the pendant in her hand, her spear in the other, Tesni collapsed to her knees besides her friend’s grave. For a few moments she sat in silent prayer, then she raised the spear to her heart.
High above the trees, vulture-like birds circled the area, waiting from the dying scream to fade so that they could begin their meal.