A/N: Written for the Hook a Prompt Challenge, R19-C1 – war.
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165. Foolish Sword
it was a fool's thing he did, and, and brave, but bravery was not what drove him
to that sword, but the feeling of injustice in his heart that screamed
in anger and frustration and loneliness and fear – but bubbling anger too
But it wasn't anger that drove him to shout out his heart but that feeling
of knowing how utterly wrong he was, how he couldn't stand for it
and just had to shout out against
And they needed to shout out, he needed to shout out; they needed to hear
and so he shouted it out, that icy truth
(even if it had no chance of dousing the flame that surrounded him)