❌- Something terrible that my muse has done, but frequently denies in the face of others (or themselves)
Kheja’a sighed as he put down his book. “What kind of awful question is that?” Still, he is the one to break the uneasy silence that ensues. “If you must know, I have no single, terrible atrocity to my name. But I have tread a slippery slope. People think of adventurers as heroes, don’t they? Ones who take up arms against whatever plagues the land. Except it’s not glamourous, clean-cut and perfectly virtuous like that. You’ll find anyone in the trade who’s done it long enough has blood on their hands. And those of us blessed with magickal ability walk a particularly fine line. Sure, everyone remembers their first time. But when death and destruction are but a whispered incantation away, it becomes frighteningly easy. It’s nowhere as intensely personal as locking blades and looking a foe in the eyes. You just snap your fingers, and they’re gone. That’s all it takes.
I… prefer not to dwell on it.”
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