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Ashes to Ashes Summary
Aelita's tree is being consumed by a forest fire, and she cannot bring herself to leave. She is found by a seemingly harmless cyote who convinces her that dying in the fire isn't the thing to do, and leads her to safety... then he shifted into a walker.
The walker began seducing her, his words soaked into her mind, gripped her spine; she felt herself slipping into his grasp, and then a passerby stepped in. Ellette happened to be in the right place at the right time, and was able to crush the hold that the walker, Barracus had on Aelita, but the two of them were still little match for a purewalker.
Ellette instructed Aelita to run, to save herself, and she would hold back the purewalker as long as she could. Aelita couldn't let a stranger sacrifice themselves, and in all the chaos, a little songbird began pricking, piercing, and screeching at the walker.
Distracted by the barrage of bird attacks, Ellette and Aelita slipped away, and met up with a friend of Ellettes' who was also escaping the fire. The giant angeni, Ignis, informed them they were going the wrong way and that the fire wrapped around up ahead. They were trapped, the only way out blocked by a pissed off purewalker.
With Ignis at their side, they made their way back to the field with the walker, and the show down began. It was a brutal battle that drug on as the wall of flames closed in on them... flames licking his back, and fiercely outmatched, Barracus chose to fight another day and fled; leaving Aelita, Ellette, and Ignis to escape with Aelita's newly acquired familiar, Claribel. As well as a last hope to restore her home, a cutting of her precious dogwood tree.
