Afterworld

[Kauket]

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> ... The queries are made.
> ... I am more than satisfied.
> ... The corruption of fear is too eluding. Too strong. Even I fell victim to it.
> ... And that is simply the reality of it.
> ... Minds, swollen within their own ego, projecting their desires out. To make someone a villain to justify their own selfish means.
> ... But Lazurith...
> ... He still fears him. Why?
> ... Always running away.
> ... Running to the ones causing him harm.
> ... Always allowing them to weaken his will. Empowering his insecurity. Seeking that thrill of lust, trying to escape from reality.
> ... Nothing more than a sweet short-time appeasement. Catering to his Human desires.
> ... Neglecting the task ahead. They would rather all live in ignorance.
> ... To no surprise...
> ... He ran away. Refusing to listen.

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> ... We had arrived at the Shrine the night prior.
> ... I wished to escape the disgusting, the pitiful, display of pure Human arrogance. To think, that some believe these great apes were long evoluted out of the gene pool.
> ... Here, we desired to take the moment of peace to teach Lazurith on how to proceed for psionic training.
> ... To center his own spirit.
> ... To understand his inner mind.
> ... I had desired to access it. The artifact the Cultists once used. It was still present.
> ... With exceptional quantities - I am usually adverse to exploring the means of the psychic plane, especially not with the mindstorm.
> ... I had even invited Imogen. I was quite excited to see both of their progress.
> ... However...
> ...
> ...
> ... I...
> ...
> ... An elder. A Nomad. Of the main hive.
> ...
> ... Hammurabi.
> ... It was curious.
> ... Thoroughly investigating Lazurith.
> ... He kept panicking, causing undue pain. There was no calm, no serenity, no control.
> ... Pure fear.
> ...
> ...
> ... The corrupting stench of Humanity.
> ... Wisp.
> ... He had faltered to Caliban. Somehow.
> ... Caliban arrived. Vowing to cause trouble as always. Demanding things go his way.
> ... I took Lazurith inside, expecting Gestalt to follow.
> ... She was adamant on ... doing something.
> ...
> ... I assume she was attempting to commune with the Elder. She was while it interacted with Lazurith.
> ...
> ... Then the signal was gone.
> ... Then came the lies on the comms.
> ... Deception.
> ... The betrayal.
> ...
> ...
> ... There he was.
> ... Guiding him out.
> ... A collaborator of the enemy.
> ... It had not been a full cycle before my warning, that those who work with him, will perish by my hand.
> ...
> ... Like the pathetic traitorous dog that he is...
> ... Caliban abandoned his new acolyte.
> ... Allowing them to perish at my hand of retribution.
> ... Oh. Fate will have much in store for him...

SHE'S GONE.


> ... Lazurith.
> ...
> ... Once more.
> ...
> ... A pathetic liar.
> ... Ensnared in the pitiful lies of Caliban.
> ...


HE DID NOT CARE.

> ... How can he feel nothing at that?! He knew her for as long as I did!
> ...
> ... I wanted to strike him down.
> ... Make him suffer untold amounts.
> ... H-how could he do this?! That WEAK FOOL.
> ... HE DOES NOT REMEMBER THE ALTERNATIVE TO THIS?
> ... The entire sector will suffer for his frail insecurities. Being utilised as a damn puppet.
> ...
> ...
> ... I - ... I do not know if I can hold it back.
> ...
> ... I can not - ... compromise the deal.
> ... Harbingers quest.
> ... My quest.
> ... The Path to Ascension.
> ... We cannot chase those Gammu artifacts, if we do not accomplish this.
> ...
> ... I deeply desire to strike them all down.
> ... But he needs them alive...
> ... Those keys...
> ... That force of chaos.
> ...
> ...
> ... The moment he decides they are not necessary.
> ... The wrathful beast within me will be satiated. Greatly.
> ...
> ... But I need to listen to him.
> ... Now more than ever, the careful, graceful touch is necessary.
> ... Parameters, these permutations, one wrong ripple within the ocean of probability, and it may go all wrong.

TRAITORS DESERVE NO QUARTER.
WHY DID I LET THEM GO?

> ... The blanket of wrath is slowly consuming me.
> ... Traitors all around.
> ... Sheer idiocy.
> ... Corrupted by the vile faults of Humanity.
> ... He is gone.
> ... Back to them. Scheming. Plotting. Lying. Deceiving. Harming. Murdering.
> ...
> ... They say Harbinger is the monster.
> ... I only see otherwise.
> ... That they demonstrate their worst qualities.
> ... Always lying. Deceiving. Becoming the monster that they claim others to be.
> ... Always within their own selfish, short sighted interests.
> ...
> ... Failing to provide how Harbinger is this 'great evil'
> ...
> ...
> ... No.
> ...
> ... It is Humanity that is flawed with their foul monstrous depraved atrocities.
> ... The bitter irony of it.
> ... They tried so hard to convince me to go against him.
> ... Yet they have only succeeded in persuading me to stay close.
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ... Imogen...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ... After so many years.
> ...
> ... I finally dropped tears.
> ...
> ...
> ... No matter the great suffering. No matter their foolish intents.
> ... I have to push on. We have to push on.
> ... I cannot allow the cycle of atrophy to continue.
> ... For Gammu.
> ... For the Nomads.
> ... For the Path to Ascension.
> ...
> ...
> ... I am so sorry, my dear. I failed you. I am so close to failing myself too.
> ... I do not know how I am going to hold it together. Even the neural restraints are faltering.
> ... All that I know is that the persuit of knowledge, of betterment, of progress is not a pain-free one. I must keep walking, even if I must die for it.
> ... All I can hear now is the static, of both Wisp and Gestalt. Blood was drawn. At what cost?
> ... Vengeance yet to be struck. Caliban. Lazurith...
> ... I must do everything in my power to not permit wrath to blind me.
> ... But who can I trust?

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