[God Quest] take my heart and make it strong

"I asked for deep and dark and worthy of hate...This secret wasn't so deep since you told others, and not terribly dark in itself. Ugly isn't the same as dark, but even you said that it wasn't ugly. Just concealing it was." Frey shook their head, tossing away the apple core. They weren't interested in Loren's limited views of the world. He was in Caido now. Spirits abound to the surprise of no one. "Yes you have failed Loren but what's worse is that you're horribly dull like this. You jump from one heartache to another and it's all so very, very uninteresting. I'm not interested by this whole broody, my life is so very sad routine. Bad things happen, emotions are hard, the world hurts. It is how you were made and yet instead of admitting all this to yourself, My lover died Frey so i'm a touch off today, there's this whole pretense of strength that fools no one." With a nod towards Delphia and the spirit brought along, Frey looked back to Loren. "No punishment, but nothing else either. Come back when you're ready to accept your mortality and all the inconvenient feelings that come with it. And if you're set on beating yourself up Loren, at least have someone else do it for you in the bedroom. You gain nothing by constantly blaming yourself." So saying, Frey vanished. Frey

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