redprayer: (it's a lonely end that you will come to)
Rezo the Red Priest ([personal profile] redprayer) wrote in [community profile] vivalaooc 2025-06-17 02:03 am (UTC)

"I wonder if I can."

After over a hundred years of effort, he'd achieved what he wanted for a cumulative ten minutes at the cost of his own life- at the cost of many lives. Then he'd wound up here, without the curse that sealed his eyes. And yet, still without sight. And worse yet, without the greater part of the magical power he'd always relied on.

He hasn't said I'm giving up to himself exactly, but with Matt's gentle query Rezo finds himself admitting "Ever since I arrived in Esthere, I've simply been letting whatever happens, happen.

"It's hardly admirable of me, I'm aware," he adds, forcing a note of levity into his voice. "But I suppose the ongoing war is something of a distraction."

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