[Video/ action in the Edge of Madness]

[rebornaninsect]

[The crystal is held in someone's hand when it starts to record. There's the impression of clawed gauntlet fingers around it. What can mainly be seen, however, is a huge man completely covered in some rather impressive armor. The Edge of Madness makes for a gloomy backdrop. He doesn't seem to be aware that the crystal is recording him.]

So, despite

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[Video]

[bound_skyward]

Cycle? Unending?

...Explain yourself.

[Video]

[bound_skyward]

Much appears to have changed...

[And this hasn't come up yet now has it? But Kain has to know.]

In that previous cycle I was in... What side was I on?

[Video]

[rebornaninsect]

You and Cecil fought for Cosmos.

[That Kain is asking- he can guess that there's a reason for it. And he doesn't like it any better than knowing that Cecil was on Chaos's side.]

[Video]

[bound_skyward]

No... That can't be right. Especially not Cecil...

[And yet, that one memory with the captives has been nagging at him a while, and the fact that other memories of his have the man in very different armor.]

[Video]

[rebornaninsect]

I do not lie.

[He privately disagrees with Kain. It's much more likely for Cecil to be on the side of Cosmos... even if he can't remember why he doesn't think the same of Kain.]

[Video]

[bound_skyward]

Yet both of us are on the side of Chaos.

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[rebornaninsect]

It is not unheard of for a warrior to change sides in in this war.

[Video]

[bound_skyward]

I see... although perhaps there is a reason for it.

[But he's not sure he wants to explain the Darkness to him. Even if he strangely feels that... this man might understand.]

[Video]

[rebornaninsect]

[Even without remembering his own world, this man would understand. He is unwillingly fighting for Chaos, after all.]

There is always a reason, no matter how much one may disbelieve it.

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[bound_skyward]

...I've been told I was a traitor and was controlled by a malign force. That's why I'm aligned with Chaos. It must be.

[Video]

[rebornaninsect]

[Pings. So many memory pings. None of them pleasant.]

It is as likely a reason as any.

Now, do you intend to follow in that path?

[Video]

[bound_skyward]

I intend to follow my own path.

[Video]

[rebornaninsect]

[And this time, Kain's words remind him of something he actually remembers.]

Then I hope it may lead to a better future.

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[bound_skyward]

As do I.