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𝘕𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘱?

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𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮. 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘦?

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↠ Genshin Impact OC
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↠ One of the many #GhostsOfJohn

"Everything ends, Vedrfolnir. Why do you insist on conveying the worst of things to everyone around you? Is it because you're bitter and jaded or do you just enjoy witnessing the suffering of others?"

~homeland, turned your back on me." He pauses, taking a breath.

"...what were hoping for with this exchange? A warm welcome?"

"Maybe that's the problem, brother."

Finally, Dainsleif turns around, his look carefully schooled to mask the hurt threatening to show itself.

"You never fought. You accepted everything as it came to you, even when you ought to have turned your back on it.

Instead, you turned your back on our~

Dainsleif doesn't turn to face the voice, merely staring off like he couldn't care less.

"Tell me, Ved... do you think the blade physical in nature or proverbial?" He pauses, letting that hang a moment.

"...you and I both know a proverbial blade doesn't have to be sharp to cut."

a cartoon character with blonde hair and blue eyes has a blue feather around his neck ALT: a cartoon character with blonde hair and blue eyes has a blue feather around his neck

"Bare is the back of a brotherless man... but what good does having that brother at your back do when his blade would sooner pierce through your heart than it would your enemies?"

No one is coming to save you. Get up.

I did not understand why.

I did think about
it a little, for a
moment.

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

If I send this void away,
Have I lost a part of me?

// I login to Dain's account, I spout words, I leave for who knows how long again

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... or perhaps, it's the fear of a loss of power.

For no man fights harder than a man at risk of losing everything... and there is no man more dangerous than the one who already has."

The world must be made right...

lose your mind.

Soon there will be nothing but darkness and oblivion.

~fall into a fit of rage induced by the call of the Abyss, I cannot say with absolute certainty that you would be spared his wrath any more than I would.

....he is not the same man we knew... not in the state he's in now."

~word of caution once more." He says, gaze flicking off somewhere in the distance as though in search of something before he looked to her again.

"...don't... underestimate the Abyss' hold on him. You may be what motivated him in the first place, but you are not what rules him now... should he~

~complicate matters and make this more difficult than it needs to be."

Taking a breath, Dainsleif turns his attention back to her, regarding her carefully for a moment.

"...I can't stop you from pursuing him any more than I could stop him from hunting me like he is... but let me leave you with a~

Dainsleif glanced off, gaze dropping to the flowers resting near the outcrop like he were staring at something dead with a palpable mix of disdain and sorrow.

"No, I haven't been." He admits easily enough. "I've been carefully monitoring the situation at hand, making sure neither he nor you~

Dainsleif had been keeping an eye on things; both what Tholindis was doing and how Rerir was responding to it all.

He did not find anything overly concerning yet, but that did not mean he didn't have cause to be concerned later.

"I had a feeling it was you..."

~their hand if he pursues more of the same.... nor can I promise I won't be called to assist in stopping him again."

~and made him dangerously unstable to the point where even as I faltered in my decision to help my...comrades, stop him, I still ultimately made the choice to help.

If you choose to seek him out alone against my guidance, that's for you to decide, but I cannot promise you that the others will stay~

~he continues to walk the path of the Abyss for the sake of an answer from you and the restoration of his body." He says, taking a breath and letting it out in a long sigh.

"...he can't be trusted easily, regardless of your past transgressions against one another. The Abyss has poisoned his mind~

~power tore his body into thousands of pieces that scattered across Nod-Krai?"

Another beat, taking a moment to survey and assess.

"...the Rerir back in Khaenri'ah was capable of feeling remorse for the lives he took, Tholindis... I can't say the same for the man I saw before me now, not when~