Beloved (lore): Difference between revisions
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==I am centuries old.== | ==I am centuries old.== | ||
I am beating an assassin to death. Their helmet splinters in my fists. Their taunt rings in my sinuses: ''You are a child in a general’s costume. None of the vision of your father. None of the drive or strength of the one they call Dominus... You will not be remembered.'' | |||
My father put those words in the assassin's mouth. He put the blade in the assassin's hands. | |||
I have been stabbed in the ribcage, but the ribs of the Cabal are a closed vault. We evolved to face our enemy. I have been shot in the arm, but I wear armor, even in private. I have been shot in the hand, but I have another to make a fist. | |||
I break the assassin's skull as I broke my father's heart. | |||
I send the enactine blade back to him, as he will one day send it back to me. | |||
==I am three. Something has gone wrong between the woman and my father.== | ==I am three. Something has gone wrong between the woman and my father.== | ||