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Tue 17th Jan 2023 04:26

Session 13: Nomad's Reflection

by Callum Virtaernus

In two hours, I undid two years. I want to justify it. I want to say I did it for Honorine. For Kal. Like I did when we were in the sewers. Even for Ushen and freeing his soul. But now, with the frequency with which I apply that logic, the only justification I have is...
 
Is it wrong to say I believe this to be right? That I believed it to be the best path available to my comrades and I? Torm's regret, but his calm acceptance is something I'll never forget, especially now that I've been pulled so much further from him. The scent of fear. Taste of terror. The old sensations returned, all of them I'd tried to deny for so long. All of them so vile, yet so undeniably effective. Necessary? Maybe. Circumstances were dire. I don't know if I could have overcome that monster alone. One beam would have been my doom. Atka may have fared better. Kal as well. But what if they hadn't?
 
Angus told me he would find his hatred, but he would keep himself. What must I find? What am I going to lose?
 
And all the while, I wait. I wait for the exact moment in which he'll try to enslave me. Enslave Zora. Orion. Any of the others. Nothing he does is without conspiracy. Nothing he does does not carry value to his designs. Every move calculated. Every word meticulously placed. We underestimated him once, and we paid the terrible price. Now I work beside him at the behest of my god, of my own volition, because there is a greater threat approaching. Yet I wonder after what just occurred which is the greater threat: that which is coming, or that which is immediate?
 
The thought of my daughter taking up this weapon...he put that image in my head. Put that idea there knowing the damage it would do. Knowing the pain it would cause. Everything I do, I do to keep her from him. From Hell. She has to make it to the paradise I'm moving further and further from with every second. Obliteration is coming in several forms, and I will do everything in my power to keep her from that as well. Sacrifice my very soul, if that's what it takes. And perhaps it will.
 
Forgive me, Torm. Keep me on your path. I'll try. I'll try with all my might. Even if the attempt leaves me destroyed. At least I will have lived as the man I chose to be, despite the monster he would make me.

Continue reading...

  1. Session I: Fate?
  2. Session II: Deadly Intrigue
  3. Use
  4. Session 4: Finding Floon
  5. Session 5: Found Floon...And a lot More
  6. Nomad and Durnan
  7. Session 6: Nomad's Reflection
  8. A Beast Escapes
  9. Session 7: Nomad's reflection
  10. Old Wrongs and Kindred Souls
  11. Session 8: Nomad's reflection
  12. Session 9: Nomad's Reflection
  13. Session 10: Nomad's Reflection
  14. Session 11a: Nomad's Reflection
  15. Session 12: Nomad's Reflection
  16. Session 13: Nomad's Reflection
  17. Session 14: Zora's Reflection
  18. Session 15: Nomad's Reflection
  19. Session 16: Callum's Reflection
  20. Session 17: Callum's Reflection
  21. Session 18: Callum's Reflection
  22. Session 19: Callum's Reflection
  23. Session 20: Callum's reflection
  24. Session 21 Journal Entry
  25. Session 22 Journal Entry
  26. The Journal Entry’s title
  27. Session 23 Journal Entry
  28. The Journal Entry’s title
  29. The Journal Entry’s title
  30. Callum's Reflection: Session 24
  31. Session 25 Journal Entry: Callum's Reflection
  32. The Journal Entry’s title
  33. Session 26 Journal Entry
  34. The Journal Entry’s title
  35. Session 27 Journal Entry
  36. The Journal Entry’s title
  37. The Journal Entry’s title
  38. Session 28 Journal Entry

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