The Tarnished and the Omen King watched the stars. He was rather silent this night, so Tarnished spoke for both of them.
"If you could change only one thing about yourself what would it be?"
They spoke without thinking, but when they turned to him and saw distant eyes and a sorrowful expression their heart clenched.
"Morgott, I - I'm sorry, you don't have to answer such a stupid question..."
He didn't, looking distantly at the stars, heavy silence between them. Tarnished berating themselves for being careless, they hugged their knees in comfort against guilt clawing at their throat.
Stars mirrored their stilnes, until at last Morgott spoke.
They expected his voice to be weak, shaky, but he spoke clearly, assured of his words.
"Yeah, of course, who wouldn't after what you've been trough...."
He didn't look at them, even when he felt them try to touch his arm, but hesitating to do so.
"If I hath to remain an Omen, as such is mine fate, then at least I wouldst spare them the shame."
Tarnisheds eyes burned at his words and they choked on the words of comfort. What could they say to soothe something that cut so deep?
This was not a wound, they realise. This was his heart, his veins. This was not embedded under his skin, this was skin itself, coiling around him like a cage, or was it maybe a shield?
"Perhaps.." he stopped, not because he didn't know what to say, but because he has never before said it out loud. Tarnished selfishly wished he wouldn't continue.
"If I were born to a lowborn, the holiness of Golden Lineage wouldst remain pure. I wouldst have been mercifully killed, and not hidden away because they hath no means to kill a demigod babe."
He looked at the Erdtree in the distance, it's golden branches reflecting in his dark, golden eye. He heard the Tarnished crying, and did not try to understand why. Their tears were, of course, for him, for they now knew they couldn't help him.
This was him and he will be forever suffocating in his own skin.
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