it's fine to fake it 'till you make it
The longevity of a life when weighed with its usefulness is a tricky calculation at the best of times. Later, one might wonder if there would have been more utility in Ronin’s death, that Deimos might have carried more insightful information back with him had Safrin pushed forward and used him as all demigods are inevitably used. Alas, the Nova had gone to great lengths to imbue himself upon the goddess he loved so dearly, that the decision about whether to sacrifice her star to save the world was an easy one.
Withdrawing from Ronin with a warning about what was coming no more than a ghostly echo on his lips, Safrin slipped back into her own body, leaving Ronin to crumple to the ground nearly as helpless as she was.
Choices such as these were of the sort that had shaped Caido over the centuries. The choice of Caido to turn away from the world, the choice of Dygra to slumber as Rae made a playground of creation itself. The choice of Mort and Vi to love one another so deeply that life and death became inexorably linked.
Thus it came to be that the only warning Deimos would be able to carry back with him was that they were coming .
~FIN
Withdrawing from Ronin with a warning about what was coming no more than a ghostly echo on his lips, Safrin slipped back into her own body, leaving Ronin to crumple to the ground nearly as helpless as she was.
Choices such as these were of the sort that had shaped Caido over the centuries. The choice of Caido to turn away from the world, the choice of Dygra to slumber as Rae made a playground of creation itself. The choice of Mort and Vi to love one another so deeply that life and death became inexorably linked.
Thus it came to be that the only warning Deimos would be able to carry back with him was that they were coming .
~FIN
'till you do. 'till it's true.
