I should have... | PK

[Jameson_h 393]

The sword made its arch and the mind of a young man raced...

 

"I should have listened to my mother…  I should have ignored the summons… I should have signed that paper… I should have been a coward… I should have hid away… I should have taken him with me… I should have lunged for his brother… I should have begged him for his mercy… I should have remained with my family… I should have told her how I felt… I should have made more friends… I should have kept the ones I had closer…
If only I had listened to my mother..."

And then it was gone. With a deadly swing and the mumbling of a prayer a young life was snuffed out, a pure soul raising to the seven skies and a murder committed in the name of vain pursuits and matters of pride... 
 

 

After returning home in fair health from battle with the Mountain in Norland  Peter Leopold Marna would dissapear, never to be seen again.
 

[Javert 9615]

Upon hearing of the boy-Prince's disappearance, Sir William of Sedan found himself inconsolable. He wept for what could have been, yet now...the legacy of Sedan was uncertain. Who, oh who, he wondered, would inherit the mantle now?

[Nectorist 12869]

Philipp returns to the Empire, believing his friend to have lost his life, like so many others, in the struggle against the dark. He keeps the dead boy's soul in his prayers for the next week.

[KillerMaid 636]

Malna sat in her kitchen for what felt like an eternity, someone else with her but... not truly there. She stared down at the tea in her hands as the words echoed 

 

"Let's pick a day and explore Aevos ti? We'll do everything you want!"

 

She can't remember what he said... She can't remember his words, and now all she has left is the memory of his face. She didn't even have a corpse to say goodbye to.

 

Another piece of what life she had lost, and a new one begins. A portrait ends up on her bedroom wall, of Malna and a young boy smiling.

[jqsmlne 460]

A friend mourned  a star that fell too soon. 
 

He left to prove his worth, and died with no goodbye.

 

“So close, Peter. You came so close”

 

Mirabella mourned for her friend, the mother that had lost her child, a dream that meet a cruel end and a legacy that now remained uncertain.

[Fawnytheturtle 864]

Silvia waited, and waited, and waited some more no sign of Peter anywhere trying to ask around she heard the news. Falling to her knees she hoped the bad news would be a joke "Why must everything go wrong" she cried, after standing to her feet she went home to curl up in a corner refusing to come back out

[PufferfishTrash 75]

Celestyna Ludovar hadn't wished he had gone to this battle; she didn't want her other friends and siblings to go either. But finding that she couldn't find him as she had done in the past, how easily it was to see him and speak with him.

And when those returned from battle, and not him... She would mourn, leaving herself locked in her room for a few days, quietly muttering to herself through her tears.

 

"I should have told him that I knew, I shouldn't have been scared to say how I felt... I wish I had said so many more things, and I wish we had danced more."

 

Celest would be dressed head to toe in black, mourning her lost friend, and perhaps her first love.