Of Dawn and Dusk

[Caliban]

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"[So that's how it is...I struggled for so long to keep Lazurith out of this. People think he's the new chosen. They will treat him with as both friend and foe. It is bound to happen, and he will resent everyone equally.]"

There was disdain in his tone. He didn't like what the alien mind suggested, yet he liked even less what Revenant had set in motion. She really went as far as to use her own friends as a scientific project. Not once telling them to stop and think. No, she endorsed that level of cooperation.

It stung like a spear going through his chest. A feeling amplified by how meaningless everything really was. He thought that only this once, he would take something away from Harbinger. And yet this thrall religiously pushes forward His agenda. A mere thought roared through the woods behind him, before standing up defiantly against the creature: "I should've taken that shot on Andorra..."

"[Your offer still stinks. Not even you can guarantee a new body - regardless of its form. I know my limits and so should you before promising salvation - vengeance even. You want to entice me? Give me something potent that can destroy Harbinger.]"

He paused, looking back at the ripples in the water for a brief moment before facing the monstrosity's deadly maws.

"[Because the way I see it? Even if against my better judgement I'd dare return to the living, I still wouldn't have anything to actively hurt either Him or Revenant. My goals are doomed to fail if she gets to live. And you know that too.]"

Caliban began to ponder just as he finished speaking. "Such a wild conversation", he told himself while gazing at the three suns radiating with a purple light. Unmoving, always watching. "I wonder what He'd think."

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"Test the sharpness of your sword against another. And when that is not enough, unsheathe your cunning as the hidden dagger that ends the fight."

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