My awakening in that cycle was violent. I lost control, and took a lot of people with me.
[He doesn't want to think about it. He doesn't want to remember. The ghosts rise up anyway.]
Akihiko went in after I had slaughtered one too many blades of oni-tsukai. He wanted to see if he could get through to me and save me, even if it meant him dying.
[And it had happened. He had come back to himself just as the sword had run through the gut of a man who had loved him, so perfectly and totally, that it could not have been real.
Alistair had had to drag him away from the corpse, hours later. The Seer had been too strong for him, and maybe - just maybe - the rage had been spent just enough to make the tears come.]
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[He doesn't want to think about it. He doesn't want to remember. The ghosts rise up anyway.]
Akihiko went in after I had slaughtered one too many blades of oni-tsukai. He wanted to see if he could get through to me and save me, even if it meant him dying.
[And it had happened. He had come back to himself just as the sword had run through the gut of a man who had loved him, so perfectly and totally, that it could not have been real.
Alistair had had to drag him away from the corpse, hours later. The Seer had been too strong for him, and maybe - just maybe - the rage had been spent just enough to make the tears come.]