[020] Twentieth Nightmare [action/accidental video]

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[It’s far later than Starwind is usually awake, but he jerks himself out of sleep, confused and frightened at first, and after a few more long minutes laying still, he knows that he’s not going back to sleep. Not after that nightmare

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[doesnotbrood]

[Pride and admitting fault: two of the hardest pills to swallow.] Starwind, I've...been thinking. Though...we did not speak, I believe I owe you an apology.

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For what?

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[doesnotbrood]

It would seem you didn't see. I...judged you very harshly, and you've given me no cause to. I'm...sorry.

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[A sigh.]

I have only woken from these...events recently. Yet, judgment is the way of people.

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[doesnotbrood]

...only woken? What do you mean?

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After I destroyed that...thing, I remained asleep for several days. The magic very nearly destroyed me.

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[doesnotbrood]

You...destroyed it. That boy left that part out.

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Yes, though it took the force of something a mage is instructed never to do.

Which boy?

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[doesnotbrood]

[His eyes narrow.] And what is that?

...I believe his name is Tylendel.

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I opened myself as an unrestricted channel to the magic and threw all that power in the demon's face. It destroyed that thing, but it should have destroyed me as well. I should have been burned by it from the inside out.

...ah. He has a good heart, and I am sure his intentions are good as well, though he tends to act without thinking.

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[doesnotbrood]

And...it did not, I assume. That, or you are now among the dead.

And shout accusations with no explanation...though I suppose I'm guilty of the same.

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I do not know why, but I still live.

He is young, unthinking.

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[doesnotbrood]

Then...I'm glad.

...at times, not only the young are unthinking.

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...glad?

True enough, I suppose, though they seem to be so more often.

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[doesnotbrood]

You don't deserve to be trapped here.

I suppose.

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None do. Yet...I no longer believe I will leave this place.