[But she doesn't like the sudden turn his face has taken. He keeps himself so well together ordinarily, the shift is all the more striking. Rosamund cants her head, unable to hide either her curiosity or her concern.]
No, it was something that had to happen. I'd respected his choice at the time, but after eleven years the isolation and weight of it had begun to warp his decisions. The girl he'd allied with was a danger to many people, and he was enabling the destruction she was causing out of pity for her. [ sighs. ] I really didn't want to have to do it, still.
So more people would have been hurt if you hadn't.
That's still very difficult. It's not...Being the person who ends up responsible for making a hard choice? That's no easy thing to gloss over. I understand if you feel torn about it. Really, I do.
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I wasn't torn over it. Obscudeid was deemed a great sinner. The law of the heavens had deigned him to die, and I had to protect those I was accompanying.
[ a knight has his duties, after all. ]
He'd been forced to kill the one he loved. Even for someone as strong as him, that weight begins to warp you.
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[ said with almost a hint of fondness behind it. almost.
mordalion's usually severely neutral expression is a little melancholy. ]
It never should have turned out that way.
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That's one way of putting it.
[But she doesn't like the sudden turn his face has taken. He keeps himself so well together ordinarily, the shift is all the more striking. Rosamund cants her head, unable to hide either her curiosity or her concern.]
What was it supposed to be like?
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I wasn't supposed to face him. It was only coincidence that we'd ended up in the same place, but letting him go wasn't an option, either.
[ his ears droop, too. ]
The murder he'd committed was a mercy kill. I'm the only one who knows, aside from Obscudeid.
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[Oh. Her face falls, disheartened.]
So he wasn't even that much of a bad guy? And you still had to fight him. Oh, I can't imagine — that's awful. Really, Mordalion, I'm so sorry.
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No, it was something that had to happen. I'd respected his choice at the time, but after eleven years the isolation and weight of it had begun to warp his decisions. The girl he'd allied with was a danger to many people, and he was enabling the destruction she was causing out of pity for her. [ sighs. ] I really didn't want to have to do it, still.
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That's still very difficult. It's not...Being the person who ends up responsible for making a hard choice? That's no easy thing to gloss over. I understand if you feel torn about it. Really, I do.
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[ a knight has his duties, after all. ]
He'd been forced to kill the one he loved. Even for someone as strong as him, that weight begins to warp you.