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trusthell2017-02-25 12:00 pm
wordsmithery) wrote in trusthell2017-02-25 12:00 pm
Take Responsibility.
| The time allotted for investigation this week is a bit longer than normal - not due to anything done wrong on the part of the Apprentices, but perhaps due to a basic understanding that two corpses are going to be decidedly more difficult to handle than one. However, at the end of the time period you've been given, the elevator is waiting for you, as cold and sterile as always in its journey up to the courtroom; you're down to almost half of your original number, and if anything is going to indicate that this shows no signs of stopping, it's probably this week. The deceased have had three more join their numbers since you were here last - Gold, Varric, and Viktor's portraits have been greyed-out and set atop their spots in the podium circle, the podiums themselves draped in black fabric. As always, the lectern above stands empty. Whether he's with you or not, however, once everyone has found their place in the circle, the Wordsmith's voice can be heard throughout the room. "Welcome back. Two more Apprentices are missing from your number today, and I have little doubt that weighs heavily on your minds. Balanced and Capricious have been lost to you, so that the guilty may have a chance to leave the academy and possibly even gain something otherwise impossible to attain. If you wish for your fallen Apprentices to receive justice in death, then you know what to do: yet again, hold the guilty accountable." Sixteen Apprentices remain. However many leave here at the end of the day has yet to be seen. |
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Child of demons. [It hurts, to say that.] Though you...had fallen to a part of yourself, to the darkness inside you, that doesn't define who you are. You are much more than the one...who killed those demons and Netherworlds. You are much more than the one who killed Varric, and Viktor. Let that grant you peace, please...and if not that, then the love others have felt for you.
Do not...think the efforts you've made to fight your past futile. I have watched you...have watched you feel love, and sympathy, and remorse...all things that prove you are not what you used to be. It is my fondest wish...that you could have continued to go forward, and grow, but... Even though I have only known you for a short time...I, as a fellow demon and as a god, am proud of our growth.
[A hand rests on her podium, where the shallow marks she'd made are.]
I forgive you, and I accept your sins as my own. I will carry them with me...and I will carry your memory.
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Thanks, Hanyuu. I wish I could have been more like you. Other demons, need to be more like you.