p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"I looked around at my village, rotting around me as the dragon's magic took effect. A simple village with no defenses, no warriors, and no reason to be attacked by an ancient best like the one that flies over you now. It's all your fault, and you know it. in their final moments your own parents looked at you with tears running down their sagging faces, as their bones slowly began to snap under the weight of their bodies. They stared at you, despair in their eyes as they asked one question./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;""Why?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why?/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Why did you wander from the village? /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why did you step out of your shell? /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why did you seek adventure and not stay within what you knew and were safe in? /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why would you take a risk and endanger others?/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why…/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why../p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"That question has haunted you ever since. No matter how you try to run from it. no matter what mask you put on. No matter how many things you throw at it in order to bury it to the back of your mind. You can never escape what you've done./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your mother who taught you to read and sew, because you believed in learning as much as possible./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your father who taught you how to hunt and put on a brave face for those you loved, because he taught you what a man should be, a protector./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your sister who's relationships taught you to be wary of others, and to never let someone suffer alone as she did./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your brother who would always stand up for you to the other children who didn't like you because you were different. He taught you empathy, as despite being viewed as a thug by many, including your own parents; he let you in and showed you the truth of the world./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your best friend that stuck with you until the very end. Even then when your village crumbled to dust, she was right by your side, holding your hand as tears ran down her face. Smiling at you she told you she loved you before the light left her eyes. You regret her the most./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"The girl that stole your heart, she walked in not even noticing your barriers so easily. She was everything that was good in the world mixed with what you liked. she taught you that there will always be hope in the world no matter how bad your situation looks. You never found her body, never got to confess, never got to feel her touch, never did anything because you were too scared to do anything in case you lost her friendship forever. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"They taught you to be human but being human is what got them killed. The people who taught you to love, protect, feel, and wonder were killed because of those traits./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"You stand there amidst your decrepit and rotting village, all you love around you. Flesh squishing, bones crackling, the very marrow itself turning into a disgusting black liquid. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"You look towards the dragon and take it in. flying over you, scales iridescent silver. Staring at you with an endless gaze from all around you. Completely still, but you know that it has surrounded you. A lone dragon that no force can stand against. You stare at it, remembering your lessons with your family. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"You lay your best friend on the ground slowly and stare directly at what you perceive as the dragon's eye./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"He stares at you reaches out a claw, as small as your finger, yet bigger than a mountain. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"You are the one who asked for this", /stronghe reminds you with a cosmic voice./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your child arms shake in rage, "I didn't want this… I just wanted to learn about the world. Not sacrifice everything I know! Not have to witness my friend collapse into nothing!", you scream in rage and everything stills./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"But you have, and I will not permit you to fix what you have broken, little prince. Live with your mistakes as a reminder of how dangerous you are. You took on my power willingly. Now you will live with it."/strong, he looked incredibly sad as he said this. His gaze lowering and his body shrinking until he was no taller than myself. A young boy stood in front of me./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"Know that we are eternal, we are myth, we are lost, and most of all, my little princeling. As the wielders and watchers of time, we are suffering. We all suffer as you have now. No matter what path you take, we will not hate you for it. /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongA new voice joined the first one, though equally as ancient and powerful as the first./strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"Princeling, as the heir to time itself, it is your choosing as to what path you embark down. Forever shaping the future, your choices can create a world unlike anything you could've dreamed of or send it into oblivion."/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"What is your choice"?/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongRedemption/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongAvenger/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongNurturer/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongGuide/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongWatcher/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongProtector/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;""Why?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why?/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" Why did you wander from the village? /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why did you step out of your shell? /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why did you seek adventure and not stay within what you knew and were safe in? /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why would you take a risk and endanger others?/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why…/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why../p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Why./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"That question has haunted you ever since. No matter how you try to run from it. no matter what mask you put on. No matter how many things you throw at it in order to bury it to the back of your mind. You can never escape what you've done./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your mother who taught you to read and sew, because you believed in learning as much as possible./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your father who taught you how to hunt and put on a brave face for those you loved, because he taught you what a man should be, a protector./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your sister who's relationships taught you to be wary of others, and to never let someone suffer alone as she did./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your brother who would always stand up for you to the other children who didn't like you because you were different. He taught you empathy, as despite being viewed as a thug by many, including your own parents; he let you in and showed you the truth of the world./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your best friend that stuck with you until the very end. Even then when your village crumbled to dust, she was right by your side, holding your hand as tears ran down her face. Smiling at you she told you she loved you before the light left her eyes. You regret her the most./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"The girl that stole your heart, she walked in not even noticing your barriers so easily. She was everything that was good in the world mixed with what you liked. she taught you that there will always be hope in the world no matter how bad your situation looks. You never found her body, never got to confess, never got to feel her touch, never did anything because you were too scared to do anything in case you lost her friendship forever. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"They taught you to be human but being human is what got them killed. The people who taught you to love, protect, feel, and wonder were killed because of those traits./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"You stand there amidst your decrepit and rotting village, all you love around you. Flesh squishing, bones crackling, the very marrow itself turning into a disgusting black liquid. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"You look towards the dragon and take it in. flying over you, scales iridescent silver. Staring at you with an endless gaze from all around you. Completely still, but you know that it has surrounded you. A lone dragon that no force can stand against. You stare at it, remembering your lessons with your family. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"You lay your best friend on the ground slowly and stare directly at what you perceive as the dragon's eye./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"He stares at you reaches out a claw, as small as your finger, yet bigger than a mountain. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"You are the one who asked for this", /stronghe reminds you with a cosmic voice./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"Your child arms shake in rage, "I didn't want this… I just wanted to learn about the world. Not sacrifice everything I know! Not have to witness my friend collapse into nothing!", you scream in rage and everything stills./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"But you have, and I will not permit you to fix what you have broken, little prince. Live with your mistakes as a reminder of how dangerous you are. You took on my power willingly. Now you will live with it."/strong, he looked incredibly sad as he said this. His gaze lowering and his body shrinking until he was no taller than myself. A young boy stood in front of me./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"Know that we are eternal, we are myth, we are lost, and most of all, my little princeling. As the wielders and watchers of time, we are suffering. We all suffer as you have now. No matter what path you take, we will not hate you for it. /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongA new voice joined the first one, though equally as ancient and powerful as the first./strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"Princeling, as the heir to time itself, it is your choosing as to what path you embark down. Forever shaping the future, your choices can create a world unlike anything you could've dreamed of or send it into oblivion."/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong"What is your choice"?/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strong /strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongRedemption/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongAvenger/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongNurturer/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongGuide/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongWatcher/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongProtector/strong/p