remember that you can't save everyone
remember that you have to try
Musing, he watched some of his soldiers and guards switch their abilities, countering one another in machinations and discoveries, and he smiled a little, content with the way their practices had advanced. “I think you will find the more you wield your power, the more others grow.” Life drain had always been his initial birthright, a collected shadow and contortion lingering below the surface, but then others followed suit: creation, fire, water, earth, air, flowing together in an assortment of elements that left him ready, willing, and able to combat varieties of foes and obstacles. As if something had been unlocked, unfurled and unrepentant, giving over and over and over again until he could command them all within a breath. She could make her faces all she wanted though, for he gave them no mind. Instead, he tilted his head back her way, perhaps an indication of the feline and canine shifts lurking in his soul too, a warm chuckle following. “I suppose,” and he wrinkled his nose, drawing the syllables out as if they were painful to admit. “As long as you practice on your own too.”
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