[ A stray path? A stray path? Perhaps it might have been. Perhaps that is how others see it as well. But given the circumstances of that Singularity, to call it so feels so unjust, even coming from her.
His fists clench as he meets her eyes at last, his own wide open and with a piercing gaze that he’d never thought to use on her again. In a deadly quiet voice, he replies: ]
[ How long it's been since she's seen Tristan so spirited. In defense of a version of her his Master was pressed to stop, no less. In response to his feeling, she grows more stony, in the little ways of her set shoulders and immutable gaze. ]
[ It feels almost nostalgic, the way they address one another like this—it is almost as if he’d never left the Knights of the Round Table, never turned his back on his king. It’s almost as if he were merely delivering a report, rather than trying to absolve his liege of a guilt he’d never believed her to be harboring in the first place.
If anything, all the guilt should be placed on him for carrying out the Lion King’s mercies in the most ruthless fashion. ]
It is true that Master had long been a veteran of the battle against the King of Mages. Yet he was still young, and a poor mage besides. If he had failed…
[ He shuts his eyes, unable to bear even the smallest shred of distrust against his own master— ]
If he had failed, there would be no one else who could stand against the King of Mages but you.
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His fists clench as he meets her eyes at last, his own wide open and with a piercing gaze that he’d never thought to use on her again. In a deadly quiet voice, he replies: ]
Save humanity.
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Explain.
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If anything, all the guilt should be placed on him for carrying out the Lion King’s mercies in the most ruthless fashion. ]
It is true that Master had long been a veteran of the battle against the King of Mages. Yet he was still young, and a poor mage besides. If he had failed…
[ He shuts his eyes, unable to bear even the smallest shred of distrust against his own master— ]
If he had failed, there would be no one else who could stand against the King of Mages but you.