mental link // S72

[servitor]

DIASPEIREIN To scatter, spread about.	MELIORISM The belief that the world gets better.
ORIFLAMME A symbol or standard that inspires confidence, devotion, or courage.	VANGUARD The troops moving at the head of an army.

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[somnifacient]

[He lets him speak, and only nods when he's done.]

You're right. Nothing to do be done about it, not right now. More will be revealed as we join mission after mission.

[As if they had any choice.

But the subject of Drautos comes up again, and therefore another chance at a question as he tries to parse all of this.]

...Why did he do it? [All that anger, holding onto it for years... sounds familiar, a parallel to be drawn in his own enemy, just of a different degree.]

[servitor]

He said everything had been taken from him. That we were just rats and pawns. He lost his home to the Nifs, worked for them as well as King Regis. I think he just wanted a way to hurt Lucis. He'd been let down. Why not show them how much?

[In a way, he could understand it. Not condone. Just understand. Losing so much, to join two armies, in an attempt to enact revenge?

It seems to Nyx that the history of Eos as a whole is steeped in revenge and anger.]

[somnifacient]

So then what? [He can't help the irritation that flares in his words. Nyx will know that none of it is directed at him.]

Let a whole city suffer because of that anger? A slew of innocents that had nothing to do with it? All those lives lost, I hope he was happy.

[servitor]

I don't think he wanted to be happy. I think he wanted to hurt, the same way he was hurt. People out for revenge, they're not really out to be happy. They just want the pain they've gone through to go somewhere else, to the thing that made them hurt. [He drums his fingers on the table, eyes distant, trying to make sense of how to put it all best.] He didn't care who he hurt. As long as he did the hurting.

[somnifacient]

Yeah, because that solves all of the world’s problems. Making everyone else as miserable as you.

[This rings rather familiar, with the own man he had fought and faced.]

I don’t understand that way of thinking.

[servitor]

I don't either, but I've seen it a lot. Anger makes you blind to a lot of things.