[He flinches slightly at the ferocity of the answer. But it's deserved. The hurt, the anger, the fear of it all.
He wonders if it's how Lhikan's team had felt, watching everything be ripped away bit by bit so long ago. How long had those schemes upon schemes been in motion? Every avenue slowly closed off under blind eyes, life after life vanishing beyond the silver seas, until nothing could be done but to watch as the innocent started to be herded like wildlife, disappearing beneath rubble and shadow, living every moment hoping it would someday be normal again.
After all that, and still...
...]
...Perhaps that's exactly why some of us were chosen.
Not because we come from places where a great evil was conquered.... but because we have seen the footprints that those forces leave behind.
That maybe... this world need not turn into a shadow of our own.
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He wonders if it's how Lhikan's team had felt, watching everything be ripped away bit by bit so long ago. How long had those schemes upon schemes been in motion? Every avenue slowly closed off under blind eyes, life after life vanishing beyond the silver seas, until nothing could be done but to watch as the innocent started to be herded like wildlife, disappearing beneath rubble and shadow, living every moment hoping it would someday be normal again.
After all that, and still...
...]
...Perhaps that's exactly why some of us were chosen.
Not because we come from places where a great evil was conquered.... but because we have seen the footprints that those forces leave behind.
That maybe... this world need not turn into a shadow of our own.