Still, it cuts him. The only visible emotion is the briefest of flickers in those blue-gray eyes of his.
More blood. More death. Someone he'd been tasked to rescue only for her to lose her life anyway. Hadn't the King said he'd wished another life for her?]
That ring is fueled by death and blood, your highness. You already know that.
[It's all he can say. He'd been on the front lines for over a decade. He'd seen what the armies became. He saw soldiers twisted, then soldiers replaced by hollow suits.
Then he saw the harnessed daemons, turned far worse than the fiends of the darkness.]
She nearly gave her life while I was with her. She'd rather be dead than stay a captive in the Empire's hands. Better dead than to give them any way to use the ring and the crystal. I'm sorry for your loss.
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Still, it cuts him. The only visible emotion is the briefest of flickers in those blue-gray eyes of his.
More blood. More death. Someone he'd been tasked to rescue only for her to lose her life anyway. Hadn't the King said he'd wished another life for her?]
That ring is fueled by death and blood, your highness. You already know that.
[It's all he can say. He'd been on the front lines for over a decade. He'd seen what the armies became. He saw soldiers twisted, then soldiers replaced by hollow suits.
Then he saw the harnessed daemons, turned far worse than the fiends of the darkness.]
She nearly gave her life while I was with her. She'd rather be dead than stay a captive in the Empire's hands. Better dead than to give them any way to use the ring and the crystal. I'm sorry for your loss.