Pain is an old friend; validation is something else.
It's not that others have never tried to grant it - Evandrin and Elias are ever radiant with righteous fury on his behalf - but there's always been...a dissonance there, a gap in understanding or acceptance on either side, barriers of guilt and disappointment.
Raei. This is a whisper, and for all that it's frayed with the same heart-stricken fury it resonates with a very different warmth, one that eases his shoulders just slightly. He never would have guessed, before, that gods had nicknames just as so many other siblings do; he never would have thought, of all of them, the Lord of Torment and the Redeeming Light -
She tried to do the same thing I did, but she is redemption. She knew him when he was something else. He told her that he missed her, he told her that he would try.
And the Hell of it is, Zerxus is damned sure that only one of those was a lie.
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It's not that others have never tried to grant it - Evandrin and Elias are ever radiant with righteous fury on his behalf - but there's always been...a dissonance there, a gap in understanding or acceptance on either side, barriers of guilt and disappointment.
Raei. This is a whisper, and for all that it's frayed with the same heart-stricken fury it resonates with a very different warmth, one that eases his shoulders just slightly. He never would have guessed, before, that gods had nicknames just as so many other siblings do; he never would have thought, of all of them, the Lord of Torment and the Redeeming Light -
She tried to do the same thing I did, but she is redemption. She knew him when he was something else. He told her that he missed her, he told her that he would try.
And the Hell of it is, Zerxus is damned sure that only one of those was a lie.