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{ Byun Baekhyun. }
{ Twenty-five years of age. }
{ Aritis born and raised; Now it’s King. }
{ Formally educated and trained in magic. Specializes in Water, Light, Telekinesis and Teleportation spells. Self-proclaimed expert angler. }
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Settled before his eyes, he traverses through a dark haze that follows him much like the way night follows day. It's as obscuring to his psyche as it is bitter on his tongue, depriving him of knowing any clarity. And it thickens in his mind, along with the resentment, the jealousy, every distress in his being. He's the full moon struggling to shine from behind the clouds.
Too long has it been this way. Longer than anyone could withstand, surely, which would explain the dimming of his light. Somehow he had submit himself to anger. No one would have guessed a boy so lively and bright would be the beginning and the end to a viscous circle. Even under the harsh pressure of his family, he always displayed a grin shining brighter than anything; he hopped on light feet and took the world as his own. There were no limits in his mind. He was a child ready to expand the bounds of the universe, eager to learn the world and love the skies above.
Unrecognizable to the man he became.
❝ Do you remember that summer we witnessed the eclipse? It's been over a decade, and suddenly I'm stuck on the memory. The ocean breeze was more refreshing back then than it feels now. The waters never-ending. In my naivety, I thought I felt the will of the earth ready to propel us into greatness. What a joke. Though I can't say too confidently that I'm any less ignorant today. Not with recent events. But then, on the ocean's edge with you- you who channeled the light in me, you who always saw me for the person I am versus the person our society wants me to be- There was something new I couldn't pinpoint. A difference in you, or rather in the way I saw you: A profoundness that couldn't be shaken.
Did you notice it? When the sun met the moon?
We were preoccupied by the brief passing of shade, but looking back upon it now I realize. I realize we would not have turned out this way had I acted differently. ❞
