Flashback
"TAKE LAENIA TO SAFETY."
He walked through Scion, gazing at streets far less lively, perhaps even less sunny, than in their prime. This town was lucky, its shield grid remained intact during the Dominion attack.
Not a very long walk, but still long enough that he paused often to rest. He almost passed out at one point and the dull discomfort of his recovering injury made itself known with every step.
Rakurai stood alone at Zelan's grave. "TAKE LAENIA TO SAFETY."
An hour has passed since he excused himself from his hospital 'prison', Laenia promised to have him released the next day or the day after, but it was not soon enough. He was still weak, certainly not advisable to go for a walk in his present condition, but he was too stubborn and too foolish to care.
"...Please forgive me friend ... for leaving you alone..."
Zelan's last words to Rakurai hadn't been regretful, they hadn't been sorrowing, and they hadn't been reassuring. They hadn't even been raging, or defiant, or hateful. They hadn't been ... anything.
But in the end, he was dead. Rakurai was still in critical care when they held the funeral for his childhood wisecracking friend. He carried the thought with him that it should never have been his right to choose.
Taken from Wiuen, a brother. Wiuen, Miau and Zelan was as inseparable as Laenia and Rakurai. Taken from Laenia with child, her beloved husband.
The Dominion destroyed so much, killed so many, tore apart lives, destroyed hopes and dreams. For what ? They still believe in that 'bringing order to chaos' crap ? What bloody damn idiot thinks that is possible ? he thought.
Rakurai swore revenge, "I will be the one who will the annihilate the Founders for what they have done."
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