[ The god who has chosen him is blessed to have him as their own, to know know a man like Somnus and have a human being like him walk the earth. Yet to treat him like this.... After hearing this man’s burdens, she wonders why this god has never intervened to stop his pain, his suffering in silence. Are his emotions that unnecessary to preserve the future, or is it that this pain is indeed the necessary component, a byproduct of love that makes Somnus strive evermore towards an end—
She will not ask these questions. The future matters most, as does the world. All of humanity’s history involves malevolence and benevolence, peace and strife, and it seems the future demands the same.
The gods demand the same, she asks the same. For she, too, has taken a royal’s soul to keep with her this entire time to use for sake of the future. While Pyra can claim to have been merciful to grant that man sleep for these centuries, he does not know that he had been taken, for she had not given him a choice. Now his ruined kingdom’s emblem (a kingdom whose ruin she caused) sits in the palm of her hand. She is no better than this god that has caused so much suffering for the king before her.
So long as the future needs to be preserved, Somnus may need to suffer. So long as her own world’s future needs to be ensured, so too must she ensure the same for the soul she has taken, that he knows not the peace of true death. This is why she is sorry— for their suffering, for being a propagator of it, for not knowing any other way, for it all being for the sake of the world she loves. She is sorry, she is sorry, she is sorry.
She buries her head into his shoulder, her hands tensing upon the fabric draped across his back. ]
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She will not ask these questions. The future matters most, as does the world. All of humanity’s history involves malevolence and benevolence, peace and strife, and it seems the future demands the same.
The gods demand the same, she asks the same. For she, too, has taken a royal’s soul to keep with her this entire time to use for sake of the future. While Pyra can claim to have been merciful to grant that man sleep for these centuries, he does not know that he had been taken, for she had not given him a choice. Now his ruined kingdom’s emblem (a kingdom whose ruin she caused) sits in the palm of her hand. She is no better than this god that has caused so much suffering for the king before her.
So long as the future needs to be preserved, Somnus may need to suffer. So long as her own world’s future needs to be ensured, so too must she ensure the same for the soul she has taken, that he knows not the peace of true death. This is why she is sorry— for their suffering, for being a propagator of it, for not knowing any other way, for it all being for the sake of the world she loves. She is sorry, she is sorry, she is sorry.
She buries her head into his shoulder, her hands tensing upon the fabric draped across his back. ]