blackscales: Made this for myself, Do Not Take! (33)
̶W̶R̶A̶T̶H̶I̶O̶N̶ ([personal profile] blackscales) wrote in [community profile] westwhere 2023-06-23 04:51 pm (UTC)

His lips thin, unhappily.

"For a long time, it was easy for me to believe what they did was for a greater good. That the pain had a purpose. That they must be been correct, that none of the others could be saved. I thought, perhaps, if I could show them I was different -- if I fought my own family to save the rest of us they would see we were on the same side."

Wrathion darts his eyes away, brow furrowing.

"Not long before I came here, a brother I never knew I had came to light. He'd been living in an area protected from the influence of N'Zoth for some time. He started to feel the corruptor's influence. I made him a potion myself to protect him."

So was that it, then? Was it all for nothing? Could they all have been saved, if back then he had only known how? If only he had decided not to take the word of those who ripped him apart for granted, and investigated himself?

What is pain that has no purpose but needless suffering?

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