Blackw
eve before the next assault. I knew Stellan Maris would not st
ciousness. This time, there was no anger. The voice was smooth, almost sedu
d on its words. *
e now that of a bored academic. *A recurring narrative. When one player is removed, a soul with a similar traject
otic actions are creating stress fractures in the fabric of th
s were mobilizing, their movements tense and sharp. The news of Rowan's r
in my mind. *Is t
suasion. *I can offer you a peaceful end. A quiet fading, free of pain. In your
promising a pig a quick death. You fundamentally misunderstand. I don't
ing, it could process. But a subject who simply did not care for the rew
asked, her wolf-mind tempted by the
k of certainty. *There is no 'better next time.' There is only
prescribed future: a slow, lonely death in this very room, my body growing frail, my mind lost to a sorrow
details. In one flash of me lying on my deathbed, I saw it-a symbol carved into the headboard. A stylized wolf intertwined with
It had roots. It had rules. An
found boredom. *Are we done? This is terribly tiresome.
had thrown its best weapons at me, and I had treated them like m
lpha seat was a bloody, desperate affair that he ultimately lost, leading to his ex
t lose?* A truly delicious, d
different now. Cold, sharp, and deadly serious. *You truly care for nothing, do yo
orphan, and given me a name and a home. The only person in this world who had ever shown me true, unconditional ki
e one string it could pull.
ly was a dead calm. *He died in a ri
discovered the pact. He was trying to free the Black
tilted o
the grieving, heartbroken Luna. Fulfill your tragic purpose. Do this, and I will tell yo
ossible choice. My freedom,
ave my answer. A single, whispered
.Fi
ecede, satisfied. I slowly opened my eyes, and they held no trace of sorrow
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