“Power is inert without action and choice.”
THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM SENTENCE STARTERS ( accepting ) !
how dare he say such a thing. towards a man he didn’t even know. but maybe the great corvo attano was right. perhaps he’d become nothing more than a puppet to use as the duke constantly pulled at the strings binding, and leading him deeper into a life of corruption and iniquity. but does anything matter anymore?
all is already lost. his clockwork soldiers in shambles, and his only means of resolving a complicated problem stolen away from him by none other than emily kaldwin, just as he had once taken anton sokolov from her. there’s nothing else but death, or perhaps something worse awaiting him? he had failed the coup. what good is he now?
was he ever any good at all?
maybe he should stop fighting. maybe he should let go of his blade as his body aches and a cut on his head bleeds, soaking black hair and staining human flesh red. but kirin refuses. a guttural groan escapes him as he forces himself on his knees. his limbs screamed with exhaustion, but his mind shrieked with fear of a notion that a fate worse than what the outsider can offer awaits him on the other side.
❛ then i choose this ! ❜ he rolls over, swinging his blade wildly as it connects with another firmly held sword. no, he’d rather die a genius than go back to being a nobody.









