Death_Angel | Sat 11-Nov-23 03:45 PM |
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#81454, "Uthiln's Role Chapter 6"
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RoleChapter 6 Shamed Added Sat Sep 10 23:46:18 2022 at level 51:Uthiln slid down the wall of the Hall of Marans with a heavy sigh, looking at the moonlit courtyard before him. A freezing gust of wind brought a swirling scattering of fine snow off one of the watchtowers, glittering around him quietly.
How? How had it happened? He replayed the details of the fight over and over in his mind - the choking sand of the Sorrows whirling around them, the Marshall's back pressed to his as they fought both the demon and the orc chieftain simultaneously. They had been blinded then, as the orc kicked dirt in a sweeping arc, and Uthiln had raised his shield, gritting his teeth for the blow that never came.
But the sounds did. The wet, unmistakable sounds of blade biting flesh, and then cries in a language he did not understand. He had rubbed his eyes furiously while waving his shield and when his eyes blurrily opened, saw it.
Two lost soldiers, crumpled, unmoving, unmistakably dead. The ones they had heard calling out for help as they had furiously chased after the orc. And they, the supposed defenders of Light, had killed them. In their fury to end an evil, they had committed one.
Uthiln covered his scarred face with his hands, rubbing at phantom sand in his eyes. He had not struck the blow, it was true. But he and the Marshall had both desperately been swinging at anything moving in the battle that had raged across the blinding desert. It could have been him. It was just pure chance it hadn't been.
He had visited his Goddess's shrine, and prayed, and when he was blessed with her presence, he had brashly boasted of becoming the "Roar of the Jaguar". She had wisely and gently told him to seek humility. And now here he was, not fit to even be in her presence. Looking back on his younger self, he was ashamed. Had he really thought himself worthy?
He looked up at the walls of the Fortress. He had bled for it, fighting those who would bring it down and what it stood for. And now he brought it shame by merely existing.
He felt broken again. But unlike the torture by the goblins, it was a crushing of his spirit. He had stayed strong back then, not because he was the toughest, or the best with a blade. But because he thought he travelled with the Light.
He wasn't so sure of that now.
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