• Published 30th Apr 2023
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Flash Of A Reflection - Moproblems Moharmoney



"Sometimes in life you get the whole story, beginning, middle, and end. More often though you just get a flash."

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She Shall Not Forget

She'd traced her steps back from memory, one thousand years to some was barely a week to others. Admittedly, the second category was thin on the ground, but she hadn't always been as ignorant as the serfs thought.

Luna hadn't expected much upon arrival, honestly, but what she found still brought forth bitter tears.

Scrubland.

He'd sacrificed everything. Honour, Valor, Safety, even his very life in the end…for this.

She still remembered that icy gaze, utterly defiant to the very end, and a shard of fear jamming it's way through even her Nightmare clouded mind. The history books barely made mention of him, but perhaps he was the first chink? Her drubbing of the Pillars had been close wrought, but they were heroes one and all, while he'd been just a mere mortal in the end. A sign of things to come, perhaps?

"I will make this right, my Captain."

Author's Note:

Prompt - "And Some Pain Too"