Promises are lethal weapons,
Especially when they are broken.
Possessing the potential to pierce the very heart and soul of mere mortals
To shatter their souls into a million pieces as they watch the hopes
Their expectations that others have in them slowly trickle through their fingers
No matter how tightly they clenched their fingers,
Not wanting to believe they have let everyone down,
Their faith he once prided himself on having continued to go down the drain
It was beyond painful
Guilt and helplessness ripped his heart apart
Even his memories seemed bent on making him even more miserable
Plunging their roots deep
Permanently
Stubbornly
Etching themselves in his mind.
"You shall pay for breaking the promises you vowed so strongly to uphold"
That sneering, chilling voice would plague him to the end of time.
He was sure of it
Even at the extreme ends of the earth, he could not escape its clutches
It was everywhere
The snake-like being that was neither mortal nor immortal
Its hollow eye sockets,
Its nose-less face
Its smirk constantly mocking him
At the loss of every single person that ever mattered to him
How could the seemingly impenetrable fortress he had painstaking build upon
Come crashing down on him
At the most crucial moment of his life
At the instant where it was make or break
Cries of anguish, rage surrounded him
But it was their hopelessness that would haunt him
Forever imprinted in the depths of his mind
The power of the pensieve had left him when his last fighter fell
Right in front of his midnight blue orbs
There was no salvation for him
No future in the underworld
Doomed to hide beneath the face of the Earth from all he feared
There was no salvation for him
He couldn't hear the calls of his family
Could not feel that someone was shaking him vigorously
Trying to pull his feet back to the world of the living
Floating around aimlessly
In a land not of the living
Not of the dead
But a land filled with all his worst fear and enemies
A land where he was subjected to their mercy
A land where he was completely powerless
No hope
No motivation for him to continue fighting
Why not just give up?
Let go of all he fought for
Let go of all his loved ones
Let go of
Himself
And that's what he did
But did you know what was even sadder?
That he could actually grit his teeth and confront
All of his fears
He might find himself back at home
Sitting with his loved ones once again
Promises are lethal weapons
Especially when they are broken
There's a reason
Why the unbreakable vow
is unbreakable
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