Apertureing Destiny: Week 4 - Hideaway (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 23:46 (2405 days ago) @ Ragashingo
edited by Ragashingo, Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 23:53

There’s only so many times you can be thanked by a grateful mother or see the closely held tears of joy roll down the face a father finally able to let down his guard upon reaching the walls of The City before your doubts and misgivings and anger at the sleeping god that did not help during your City’s time of great need is chipped away.

When that happens, it leaves you raw and hurting. So much more so than when you could harden your anger and shut out the world. That small sense of hope that shines out from beneath your scarred emotions is so dazzlingly brilliant in the way it can drive away the darkness in your soul, and so devastating in the way it exposes your own misjudgments and regrets to further repeated contemplation.

Staring out across the dark, nighttime water at the edge of The Farm was the best way Tesni Jarmila had yet found to soothe that hopeful pain. The lapping of the waves and gentle reflections of other nearby settlements helped remind her of her greatest accomplishment. And of her most meaningful death.

After the Red War she’d tried running away, but had found that it just was not in her nature. So, each day she helps secure the paths to The Last Safe City. And each free night, she returns to The Farm to stare out across the water as she lets it slowly smooth away the jagged edges of her spirit.

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