After Satrina's words, an awkward silence hung in the air, which, however, did not last long.
"- We... I... " Her voice changed to its normal state and distorted back until it returned to its original sound.
"- It was a deliberate choice, despite the fact that the situation in which everything happened to me pushed me to the desired result. They showed me what a terrible person I was... They made me feel all the pain that I caused to others before. They opened my eyes to the consequences of my sins. Enlightenment gave me another chance. A chance for redemption. Humanity is heading into the abyss. Without enlightenment or at least understanding the essence of harmony that the Light carries in itself, we are all doomed to become one of the billions of extinct species. They didn't touch my mind. Didn't rewrite it. Many people brand me as a slave to their will, but this is not at all the case. I remained myself. But I looked at the world from a different angle..."
She glanced again at Israfel and back.
"- We are different, Satrina. You claim that we are one but serve two. This is not true. We, like those who enlightened us, are different. We do not abandon our own. We do not treat even the least significant as a resource. We are few, but we are a family. We are what they were all before the great war. Until the expulsion of some and the blind agony of others. The rest hate us for this. They brand us as engulfed in darkness, however, it is they who have become living weapons whose common goal is war and destruction."
