Aurelia
Yes, I could have, she replies immediately, pausing to take a stabilizing breath, I should have. She should've done a lot of things differently.
Vengeance and violence, the outcome of them is just more of the same, and now he knows why she set Atlas aflame after he had set the Slagveld aflame.
None of us have enough sense to break the cycle. They tell us a war is coming and what do we do? Prepare for it, without question, like... mindless soldiers. Sheep. Without even pausing to ask why or if we should. Her gaze casts away, along the cliff's edges and nooks, cast in a layer of fine mist that cools the sweat on her nose.
She steps towards the outer edge, adjacent to him now, closer in his vicinity. Her forepaws teeter on a rocky outcrop, and she stares down the vastness before her. I know I didn't, not at first. But I've been ruled by violence - vengeance - for so long. You think it has a purpose, a place, a time... but it doesn't.
Vengeance and violence, the outcome of them is just more of the same, and now he knows why she set Atlas aflame after he had set the Slagveld aflame.
None of us have enough sense to break the cycle. They tell us a war is coming and what do we do? Prepare for it, without question, like... mindless soldiers. Sheep. Without even pausing to ask why or if we should. Her gaze casts away, along the cliff's edges and nooks, cast in a layer of fine mist that cools the sweat on her nose.
She steps towards the outer edge, adjacent to him now, closer in his vicinity. Her forepaws teeter on a rocky outcrop, and she stares down the vastness before her. I know I didn't, not at first. But I've been ruled by violence - vengeance - for so long. You think it has a purpose, a place, a time... but it doesn't.
keep your face always toward the sunshine
and shadows will fall behind you
and shadows will fall behind you
