@drachliebe said: ... or isvic w/ lilli. pain & suffering👍
".. happened."
His voice is a deep, layered, echoing. Under his icy skin, the dull glow of him pulses faintly in tune with some heartbeat.
Arktos extends a massive hand, moving each finger one by one, the crackle loud and crude, like something mechanical that hasn't been oiled.
"two thousand years, and you ask what happened? lifetimes. I saw a role set before me. a story whose beats would not be denied. I recall little of my youth, but I was not who I thought I was. Isvic, the gentle, innocent creature, never existed. I was a travesty waiting to happen."
his cold eyes land on the girl. resolute, and unfeeling.
"you know what it is to discover that everything you thought about yourself was a lie. Your purpose, the very reason you were alive. I was alive to be the death of spring."
what happened was that it hurt, it all hurt so badly. He missed her so much. He missed them all so much. But the pain was so bad, he didn't want it to happen again. So he left him behind.
Now she is here before him and he feels...nothing. He drops his hand. Resigned.
"Only some people get happy endings, little dragon lure. It is better not to hope for something, than to do so and have it taken away. Having it taken away..."
his hand hovers over his chest, clenches, the dots misshapen coal dotting along his face as a mouth twists.
"you thought you escaped your role? you didn't. it just wasn't the one your father gave you. What happened? I accepted the way things are."









