Vex stepped back one step too many. The void took him without a sound.
"Why are you telling me this?" Kaelen asked, his voice flat. kawaks
Miren was the first to fully solidify. She looked at Kaelen, then at Vex, and she smiled. Vex stepped back one step too many
"Because I want you to feel it," Vex whispered, stepping closer. "Not the fear of death. You've made peace with that. I want you to feel the fear of failure . The fear that when you die, there will be no one left. No song. No memory. The Kawaks will be a footnote in a Dominion census report. 'Extinct. Cause: resonance cascade.'" Miren was the first to fully solidify
He had a choice. He could let go. Shatter. Give Vex his death-scream and become another piece of Dominion fuel.
It was a name.