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Epilogue: Cleansing Rain

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It's raining. Hard. Like it has a thousand years to catch up on. I'm sitting on an outcropping near the top of the tower. The rain feels good....

I can see the village from here. I wonder...have they ever seen rain? Or has it been dry for their entire lives?

I look past the village. I see the animals, just starting to emerge from their dens, surprised by the rain....not sure what it is. The younger ones are trying to bite it....they are clearly pack animals...

It keeps raining.....what is this place? This desert on the edge of nowhere....With the tower....and the shadow....

The thirst for revenge is gone....what would his death achieve? No satisfaction.....no pleasure....only more sorrow. There will be no more deaths by my hand. I have created enough distress.....

The Brethren....what were they? Spirits? The last of a species? The beginning of one? I never wondered....never asked. I feel like I eliminated the last of their kind.....an eradication of their species. And for what? Nothing....just more death....

I now know what the shadow was....nothing more than what I brought. It was what I was becoming....or already was. An instrument of sorrow....killing with no thought to the consequences....forgetting everything except the end game....

The rain continues to fall.

I feel a slight breeze blow past........


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The End of it all
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Scyrolord546's avatar
Saw it commin. I knew there would be a breeze all along.