"It cannot undo what was done," he admits. "Yet all the same, it was a pleasure to prove all the dark predictions wrong. To prove those who doubted my conviction wrong. To show that I am not my father."
That was, of course, what they all said. What they whispered about him, some thinking he wouldn't hear and some in the full knowledge he would. That the fall of the Black Dragonflight was inevitable. That his own fall was inevitable, that he could not be trusted, would turn on them at any moment.
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"It cannot undo what was done," he admits. "Yet all the same, it was a pleasure to prove all the dark predictions wrong. To prove those who doubted my conviction wrong. To show that I am not my father."
That was, of course, what they all said. What they whispered about him, some thinking he wouldn't hear and some in the full knowledge he would. That the fall of the Black Dragonflight was inevitable. That his own fall was inevitable, that he could not be trusted, would turn on them at any moment.