Terror to Behold

Tenebrous shapes danced a around him. Their courage to be so near applaudable and yet deplorable. Had he fallen so? That the creatures of the night did not look on him and beg for the sunlight? Or that they did not so warmly flock to him. Were the warning signs gone? They were and he knew it was he that was left to blame. Syrinx had abandoned his position and his appointment to rise through the world and chase some other form f mediocrity. Why? When here he had been a practical god. His actions were unforgivable. Especially or him--absolution would evade him as it always had, and he would no longer question her cruelty.

? Had he gotten so old? That the chill of alacritis's fall was felt through his fur and that the air was unwelcoming to him. It were as though he was facing a rebirth of sorts. Entering a new world by any means. Born again? Yes. This was his second chance to face them all and show them his heart. To bare it before them in the equivalent grotesqueness of pulling his chest apart so that all could see. His intentions had always been masqueraded in wrongness and in the loving embrace of chaos. But it was his family--it was Valhalla and the Adravendi-- that he had always sought to protect. He was a better man than they would ever know, for infamy outweighed beauty every time. Besides, his beauty had been stolen from him in his youth. And in some metaphorical (and very literal) way so had his youth. ?

?The frenzied rush of air that straddled his body and rushed through the tendrils of fur was welcomed and hated all in the same moment. His feelings were mixed about this place. Did they hate him? His family...Valhalla could not have withstood the wars without someone willing to call the dangerous shots. Already the air in the world was different; And no longer was he speaking about the climate. Many changes had risen in the world he claimed to love, and with a tremendous howl he bought his pardon back to it. He was back in Alacritis and this time it was to enact his will on them all. This time it was to change the face of the world they knew--for the world he wanted had been far too far out of his reach.?

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