dragonmount: (🔆 016.)
rand al'thor. ([personal profile] dragonmount) wrote in [community profile] aionlogs 2022-07-26 01:12 am (UTC)

[ his gaze flicks downwards. abel's open concern can be hard for him to take even under better circumstances, and these are

not that.

what happened? it's less that he's reminded of that night than that he's drawn back into the memory. the kenoma hadn't let him forget; that what they'd done with him had simply been what he gets for his choices that night. he doesn't even fully disagree. ]


I ran into someone. That guard, the Achamite. [ he speaks slowly and without looking up, hands wringing in his lap. ] We fought.

[ i don't know how it happened goes unsaid. it was an accident. instead, carefully, deliberately, he says the thing he'd been told (reminded) over and over. ]

I killed him.

[ heavy, like stones dropping in a lake. ]

I didn't see Amos coming. [ there has to be some stupidity to him hesitating now. as if channeling is a worse admission. but back home, it would be. ] I...drew down lightning. But that didn't stop him. [ ... ] I think you must've gotten there after that.

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