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Anden

The Sun and the Moon
In an endless game of hide and seek

Anden's eyes narrowed. "I chose to be stronger. To be faster. To be a better version of myself. What I chose was to be able to save my sister." Anden did his best to stare at Wessex, but her demeaner made it difficult. "I didn't choose to join a war. The rest of this - yourself included. Seems to be extra baggage." Anden huffed. "I'm not ready to deal with it. Nor do I want to right now."

His ignorance was his choice. To push the darkness away. A life as ascended didn't mean he had to live in the Grounds. He knew better, he knew there were places that brought joy in Caido - where clouds of despair didn't linger. He would find them, and he would leave the Grounds behind.

A danger to everyone else.

Images of him giving Alina his hair and spikes, flashed throughout his mind. Weapons made from ascended, to defeat them. He was a danger to everyone. To the very people who helped him come to terms with his new life; to Bastien, to Nate. He could be the reason the clouds of despair linger longer throughout the Grounds.

Anden gulped, unwilling to falter. "I don't understand what use I can be to you anyways. Is it not better for me to be out there, beyond the Grounds, to learn more about Caido. Then to stay? If my ignorance will get you - and the others killed, shouldn't I be trying to solve that."

In many ways, Wessex was right though. Anden understood that now. He didn't know then. He was - and is ignorant, and that ignorance might be the reason someone else dies. He may have fueled the very war he wanted so desperately to put behind him. Still though, how was he even supposed to help.

The Sun and the Moon
In an endless game of hide and seek