[ And that's hard to admit, too. It's an old wound, but it still stings, an injury that's never quite healed over. A wound that re-opens from time to time, memory only salt to sting it anew.
But Cain answers anyway. Standing here, on a world that no longer exists, facing the ghosts of his past, it feels too precarious not to. Like he really will never be able to take a step away from this place if he doesn't. He really will be stuck here forever, swallowed up by this ghost of a world, trapped in the Storm's memory when it fades, Cain vanishing along with it. ]
Our kingdom was destroyed. A sudden attack, a ray of light from the sky that wiped everything out in an instant. My brother was in the capital at the time, where it was hit the hardest. I can only assume he perished in the initial blast.
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[ And that's hard to admit, too. It's an old wound, but it still stings, an injury that's never quite healed over. A wound that re-opens from time to time, memory only salt to sting it anew.
But Cain answers anyway. Standing here, on a world that no longer exists, facing the ghosts of his past, it feels too precarious not to. Like he really will never be able to take a step away from this place if he doesn't. He really will be stuck here forever, swallowed up by this ghost of a world, trapped in the Storm's memory when it fades, Cain vanishing along with it. ]
Our kingdom was destroyed. A sudden attack, a ray of light from the sky that wiped everything out in an instant. My brother was in the capital at the time, where it was hit the hardest. I can only assume he perished in the initial blast.