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I just couldn't resist writing what I thought was going through Max's mind as he fought Elliot.
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He's a good man.
He's loyal.
He's a hell of a lot stronger than I am. Why else would it take all twelve of us to face him?
Sure, he has a battalion of his own, but even after we defeat them, we all know he's strong enough that we have to fight using such odds to survive. And some of us won't anyway.
I don't quite understand what's so special about me. I'm just some lunkhead that Sir Varios saw fit to teach sword skills to personally. It drove all the knights mad because they didn't see what I don't see either. Somehow though, Lord Varios saw it. So I was taught to fight with a sword. Why I was given a mission like this, I'll never understand. Like I said before, I'm just a kid.
Sure, he's fighting on the wrong side. But that's because he's so loyal to his Emperor. His leader was corrupted, and he knows who did the corrupting. It hurts him to fight on the wrong side, but he is loyal above all else, evidently. That seems to be his only fault.
I could go on forever if I tried to list mine though. So could anyone in the Force, and especially so could anyone who lived in Guardiana with me.
I can't cook. That's why Lowe's so good at it. If I even fetch the water, the meal is doomed. We learned that early on. Growling stomachs do not lead to good relations.
I'm slow. I'm not good with magic, I cannot speak elvish, dwarvish, or centaurian. I don't remember histories well, and cannot memorize. I'm not even good at maths and that's my best subject. I can only barely swing the swords as we get them, and have only just gotten comfortable with them as we find new ones.
There's nothing special about me. So why was I declared the leader?
A knight back in Guardiana summed it up, long ago. 'Why you?' He said. I agreed then and now.
Somehow, though, I'm leading these people, into ambush after ambush, skirmish after battle after tussle. Then we reach Pao, and I'm informed that someone's waiting for me. My first thought was, "how could anyone be waiting for me? I know no one here." Then I encountered General Elliot.
Even less than everything else do I understand why we have to fight him. I don't see how we can win. The others seem to think I've some kind of charm that will get us through. They say that it's worked with every other battle, like when we were in Rindo, in Shade Abbey, and when we fought at the land bridge. But those were sheer accident. I have no clue how we managed to survive, and only half of us were still standing after each of those battles anyway!
So, how am I going to win this?
I wish I knew.
But, even more, I wish I didn't have to fight him. He'd make a better leader of the Shining Force than I ever will.
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Okay, so he's dogging himself, but after living years with the kind of treatment that seemed normal from the knights, don't you think he would be?
I just couldn't resist writing what I thought was going through Max's mind as he fought Elliot.
~
He's a good man.
He's loyal.
He's a hell of a lot stronger than I am. Why else would it take all twelve of us to face him?
Sure, he has a battalion of his own, but even after we defeat them, we all know he's strong enough that we have to fight using such odds to survive. And some of us won't anyway.
I don't quite understand what's so special about me. I'm just some lunkhead that Sir Varios saw fit to teach sword skills to personally. It drove all the knights mad because they didn't see what I don't see either. Somehow though, Lord Varios saw it. So I was taught to fight with a sword. Why I was given a mission like this, I'll never understand. Like I said before, I'm just a kid.
Sure, he's fighting on the wrong side. But that's because he's so loyal to his Emperor. His leader was corrupted, and he knows who did the corrupting. It hurts him to fight on the wrong side, but he is loyal above all else, evidently. That seems to be his only fault.
I could go on forever if I tried to list mine though. So could anyone in the Force, and especially so could anyone who lived in Guardiana with me.
I can't cook. That's why Lowe's so good at it. If I even fetch the water, the meal is doomed. We learned that early on. Growling stomachs do not lead to good relations.
I'm slow. I'm not good with magic, I cannot speak elvish, dwarvish, or centaurian. I don't remember histories well, and cannot memorize. I'm not even good at maths and that's my best subject. I can only barely swing the swords as we get them, and have only just gotten comfortable with them as we find new ones.
There's nothing special about me. So why was I declared the leader?
A knight back in Guardiana summed it up, long ago. 'Why you?' He said. I agreed then and now.
Somehow, though, I'm leading these people, into ambush after ambush, skirmish after battle after tussle. Then we reach Pao, and I'm informed that someone's waiting for me. My first thought was, "how could anyone be waiting for me? I know no one here." Then I encountered General Elliot.
Even less than everything else do I understand why we have to fight him. I don't see how we can win. The others seem to think I've some kind of charm that will get us through. They say that it's worked with every other battle, like when we were in Rindo, in Shade Abbey, and when we fought at the land bridge. But those were sheer accident. I have no clue how we managed to survive, and only half of us were still standing after each of those battles anyway!
So, how am I going to win this?
I wish I knew.
But, even more, I wish I didn't have to fight him. He'd make a better leader of the Shining Force than I ever will.
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Okay, so he's dogging himself, but after living years with the kind of treatment that seemed normal from the knights, don't you think he would be?