A/N: This is a song fic to "Lullaby for Cain", from the Talented Mr
A/N: This is a song fic to "Lullaby for Cain", from the Talented Mr. Ripley soundtrack. I would tell you who it's by, but I honestly don't know. It's basically a bunch of Van's thoughts on Folken, set right after the ZOAF is put into effect, I guess. Oh, and I must give credit to the band Velcro, as I stole the line "Is there no peace in your heart for a brother?" from their amazing song, "Game Over". Thanks guys, you're awesome. Enjoy! -Nymphean Lullaby for Cain

From the silence,

From the night

Comes a distant lullaby…

Cry, remember that first cry

Your brother standing by

And loved

Both loved Beloved sons of mine…

Folken.

Brother and enemy, friend and foe. Light, dark, and silent screaming. Both beauty and beast, both joy and sorrow. Everything. Nothing. Betrayal.

Betrayed.

Sing a lullaby

Mother is close by

Innocent eyes

Such innocent eyes…

Folken.

My brother is gone. He died that day, the day when he should have begun to live. You wear his face, speak with his voice, see through his eyes.

But you are not him.

You are darkness; he was light. He was the beginning;

You are the end.

You are Strategos.

My brother is Folken.

Envy stole your brother's life

Came home, murdered peace of mind

Left you nightmares on the pillow

Sleep now

Folken.

Was it not enough for you, having stolen my brother's face and broken my mothers heart? No, yours was a thirst that could be satisfied not only with the death of my family, but with the rape of the only thing I hold dear.

Fanelia.

Destroy the country of your birth, that land of peace and beauty. Destroy me.

Destroy me.

Cast into the dark,

Branded with the mark

Of shame

Of Cain

Folken.

Betrayal, Betrayed.

Cast you away. I don't want this. You killed us all. My brother is dead, and still…

…is there no peace in my heart for a brother?

Soul, surrendering your soul

The heart of you not whole

For love

But love

What toll

Folken.

One question left.

Why?

Why die when you could have lived? Why chose the path you knew lead to destruction? Why the unending penitence, the twisted fortune gone awry? And why, in the final reel, the repentance, the remorse?

Why the resurrection of the soul you killed so long ago?

For love.

But love what toll?

From the Garden of God's light

To a wilderness of night

Sleep now,

Sleep now.

Folken.

Brother and enemy, friend and foe. Light, dark, and silent screaming. Both beauty and beast, both joy and sorrow. Everything. Nothing. Betrayal.

Betrayed.

Betrayed.

Betrayed.

Where is the man within the monster?

The child within the man?

Folken.

Nothingness and completion, Life…

…Death.

Brother.

I've betrayed you,

Brother.

Betrayed, the beginning…

…The end.