Deimos
“Similar circumstances occurred with the Grounds.” Silent, hollow, empty for a time, the survivors immersed there after the fallout of the Ascended, Sparkbird, and the war itself. “Until others stepped up,” like Dantalion, Kiada, and more, or Noah, forced to do so by his god. Machinations contorted but only so far, wondering how many more times he’d sigh within the next hour.
So he’d ask the armor-piercing inquiry, concise and quick to the point, cutting through all the other mayhaps. In the end, it probably wouldn’t matter to Halo, but in the grand scheme of Caido, where others could falter and stumble, forgotten in the clamor of chaos, there was greater risk of the stillness and complacency. “Have any of you considered taking on the role?”
So he’d ask the armor-piercing inquiry, concise and quick to the point, cutting through all the other mayhaps. In the end, it probably wouldn’t matter to Halo, but in the grand scheme of Caido, where others could falter and stumble, forgotten in the clamor of chaos, there was greater risk of the stillness and complacency. “Have any of you considered taking on the role?”
we exhume our enemy's bones
we are battling, hungry beasts
we are battling, hungry beasts
