I shouldn't laugh, but I know I'm a failure in your eyes
"That is a reflection on their darkness rather than your light," Ronin says, his voice a vehement whisper in the face of Sunjata and Deimos turning their backs on the goddess's offers. "I am not immune to that darkness either, as we both know. A demigod is still half mortal." With a long sigh, he leans into her touch however likely it is to shatter and cut him.
His brow furrows, though, at her offer, and the words that try to spill from his lips remain caged there. Even the I love you too stays behind his teeth, for some things are more important even than declarations like that. "I could never," he tells her as soon as he is able, dropping to one knee before his goddess.
"I have followed you since I came to Caido, and I will follow you until I leave it," he says softly. "For all I've done here, you have been beside me. You spared me the pain of death, you let me say goodbye to those I loved. You put me in your skies as a star, Safrin - and you brought me back, so I could see my daughter, so I could build a life again. A betrayal to you would be a betrayal to myself, to so much of what I am."
His brow furrows, though, at her offer, and the words that try to spill from his lips remain caged there. Even the I love you too stays behind his teeth, for some things are more important even than declarations like that. "I could never," he tells her as soon as he is able, dropping to one knee before his goddess.
"I have followed you since I came to Caido, and I will follow you until I leave it," he says softly. "For all I've done here, you have been beside me. You spared me the pain of death, you let me say goodbye to those I loved. You put me in your skies as a star, Safrin - and you brought me back, so I could see my daughter, so I could build a life again. A betrayal to you would be a betrayal to myself, to so much of what I am."
RONIN
