“ What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort? ” // frm ur Amell sis, kiss
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❝ Hmm! ❞ She hums, a sing-song chime which ripples through forest silence ( it livens the journey, to stimulate the mind with such hypothetical queries ). She allows the question to stand amidst the air, unanswered but mused upon, as though some sort of philosophy spoken from a past Professor or Senior Enchanter. Her thoughts wrote an essay, and yet with another, she discards it entirely.
❝ —- I would say the latter. ❞ Although, she supposes it may be impossible for her to ever know the former. A walking sin of men, of forbidden knowledge cast onto humans and elves alike; living, breathing, ALIVE despite the pull of the fade and countless demons. Enough for those to build walls around a child, to shudder and grow cautious ( read: fear ), to renounce her existence. Does the blight crawling in her bloodstream not confirm these facts? Two evils of the world contained within one body, magic and corruption one and the same.
Ah, she’s a wretched sinful thing.❝ I’ve met many born good, who take the Maker’s words into their mouthes every other hour. ❞ Templars, Sisters, Mothers: their righteousness absolute. ❝ They standby, they see no side but their own. ❞ A selective, deadly sort of ignorance. ❝ But those who choose to struggle with it, who fight day in and out, they come out the better. They encourage other so-called evil people to do the same. ❞
There’s some satisfaction by the end word, a figuratively literal skip in her step, as she turns to her new found company. ❝ And, what are your thoughts—? ❞