“You’ve finally arrived.”
The voice struck him. Where did he arrive? Memories faltered him. But the person’s figure didn’t. An old love. An old known.
Unlike many, all he wanted was peace. To his soul, to his mind, to his body. Peace, he strived to achieve. Inside that small, flora-filled room. It wall went past in a glimpse. A spear, a staff right through him.
“By myself?” he thought, but he knew the answer.
Unlike many, all he wanted to see was his loved ones. His old, lost husband. His children. It was all he wished for. It tortured him. It gnawed on his very being.
Unlike many, all the ‘ker wanted was friends. Was love. Was joy. It filled him in the same way a child was when receiving a parent’s love.
“I missed you, Nei…” The figure mumbled, its shadowed form cast with brightly glowing white eyes, staring right back at the ‘ker’s pinkish eyes
“Is… this it? Is.. this where you have been waiting?” he asked, starting to pace outwards to the figure.
He wasn’t lost. He wasn’t cast away. He felt home. He felt appealed by those he had around. The figure of his maln, his haelun, his husband, lost to the downfall of Axios…
It all struck back to him, though.
His return to the lair of the mali, the Dominion. Joining the Virarim, conquering new relationships. But, there isn’t a single man who comes out of it all pure. Untouched.
Like many, he succumbed to the temptations of desire. Of greed. Of lust.
Like many, he succumbed to trustfulness and turned a blind eye to what people seeked ill to him. He turned a blind eye to the problems that surrounded him.
He was fine, in his own bubble, in his own personal life. He hid it. He was broken. He felt as if nothing could fix him. His bubble popped. His problems came to reality, flaring him and searing onto his being. A greed, a crave for something he could not even think of.
Though, he knew, it is all coming to an end. At some point. We all die, let it be of age, of disaster, of love.
“Stay with me, Nei…”
“I never leaved you..”
Pain… but no more.