You Need to Sit Down First

Warning: mention/description of a brutal death.

A mysterious letter that is believed to have been sent from Felicia to Nicole.

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Nicole,
I don't know how to start this. I don't know how to tell you it.
You need to sit down first, I promise you that. My news will probably shock you even if it isn't gruesome enough to trigger you. You've seen plenty of awful things, this likely wouldn't even touch the list.
Patricia is dead. Isabel and Elira died centuries ago and you helped me through the grief. You need to help me now. I can't—I can't do this alone. I can't go through this without someone else.
Patricia was taking a message between two Celestials. I don't remember who, I don't remember what it was about. And someone—someone tracked her down. She's the fastest person I know, and they caught her. Trapped her with magic, dozens of binding spells or something, drained her of power and then they—
She broke out of their confinement spells. She managed to gather enough power. It didn't make any difference. They had suppression metal–lord knows where they got that much–and they used it.
She was already dead when I found her. On her knees, two bars through her wrists, arms dragged out to the sides. There was—there was another bar through her mouth—
I can't. I can't write it. Her eyes, oh God, I can still see them. She had the most beautiful eyes. And they were so afraid, so terrified, so petrified. The way she died, Nicole, my God, she must have been in so much pain.
The sight of her when I walked... I couldn't move. And then I fell in front of her, because what else could I do, and I just—I reached out to cradle her face and—
This is the last time, Nicole. I promise. Just help me through the grief one last time. Stand next to me while they chisel her name into that stone. Tell me something, tell me anything. Tell me what you told Dolores, what you told Natasha. I won't ask for you again after this.
I'm never having another child. I'm never having another marriage. She was alive for so long, she was an Eternal too, I thought I could have her forever. I guess I forgot that Eternals die too.
Please, Nicole. Just this once more. Please, please help me.