"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck" The prince was swearing, there wasn't much else he could do at the moment. He was currently sitting cross legged in a damp cavern, feeling much the worse for wear.
Why you may ask? Well as the prince would put it, "I just spent have an hour trying to out run a god and his evil minions! Give me some Credit."
He wasn't the only one in the cavern, no, his companion was currently pressed up against the far wall off the cavern, with her legs drawn to her chest. Elika hadn't said much since they had found the cavern, just had asked if the prince was alright, then sat herself down. It had been up to the prince to draw a fire, which was a task in itself. It seemed the land had not wanted to spark a single shred of light at least that was what it seemed like to the prince.
The sun, it had been blocked out, you could see it yes, but it was like the color from it had been drawn away leaving nothing but a pale orb in the sky. The land itself seemed to have lost its vibrant colors, from the sands beneath their feet, to the beautiful blue sky.
So as they sat their in silence, well excusing the princes occasionally grunts of pain, it was if the world itself was dead; which in this case it might actually be true.
000
I glanced over at her now, she won't talk to me, I know she won't. I have undone everything she tried so hard to accomplish, everything she believed in; all for my own selfish desires, all from my want to see her again. And yet….
"Elika"
She looks up at me now, and I see what I was afraid to, confusion, sadness, anger. Yet I can't help but feel happy that I get to view these emotions in her eyes, instead of looking at her dead body, on the tomb of her mother where she would have had me leave her.
No, I don't regret my decision, I wont.
000
"Do you realize what you have done?"
It is the first thing she has said to me in hours, though I was expecting it long before this. The question though, no matter how prepared I am for it, rattles me still.
I look up at her and say "I know" while staring her straight in the face.
"You know?You know! Prince you have doomed us all, you have let Ahriman out of his prison, you have let the corrupted free once more, You Have Killed Everyone!" She is standing now, pointing an accusing finger at me, with eyes that could pierce steel.
"I did what I thought was right" is my only response to her tirade, is the only response I can muster.
"What you thought was right? What would possess you to think unleashing the greatest evil the world has ever known is the right course of action?" She looks at me expectantly, judgingly, and Instictively I know if I don't anwser this question right she will leave, and that…..that I could not take.
"Seeing you die….putting you on that stone….i could not accept it, you can not ask me to accept it. You are my comrade, no my friend, and I refuse to let you die on some foolish sacrifice. We will save everyone another way, a way where both of us live to laugh about it afterwards" I am standing up now as well, staring at her with the same piercing glare, daring her to say that my thinking was somehow wrong, that she would not have done the same. I also hope she has not caught onto my half truths, for not even I am ready to face the fact that I care for her more then I should.
She doesn't, instead she looks outside of the cavern, into the dark storm the world has become.
"You will save no one prince."
I too look out into the storm and smile. "I saved you."
