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08-21-2015, 11:58 AM
He seethed for a while, refusing to answer as he stomped down the path. Her questions prickled him more than he felt they should, because there were too much truth in them to simply brush aside. He didn't have any ideas, and he didn't want to die, but he didn't want to ask for help either. It was a glorious mess, all of it, and the only answer he found to fling back into her face lacked conviction - more of a hot surly stubbornness than anything else.
"There are things worse than dying", he said, lips stiff with disapproval. "Of course I want to live, but not if it means I'm going to have to spend the rest of my life thanking a self-satisfied, bloated overlord and run errands because I'm too scared that they'll take back their powers. Who would want that? Who would be so stupid as to sell their freedom for a maybe?"
He kicked a stone off the path with a hoof and watched without any greater satisfaction as it bounced into a stream of lava, hissing and spitting as it slowly melted and disappeared. Was that how he would go out - melt into the matter of the world in fits of agony? Or would it be more like the snuffing of a candle; one moment he was there and the next... not. Just gone.
They had almost reached the mainland. Soon enough they would end up parting ways, she back home, wherever that was and he would go off somewhere, away to more desperate searching. In a way he would be glad to be rid of her, because Ranjiri had a way of getting on his nerves without really trying. Still, he had to admit that it was rather nice to have someone around that actually listened to him without shrinking back, someone who put up a bit of a fight.
Well. He probably wouldn't see her again, even after all those pretty words. Especially after the promises to help. He'd heard them before, and look how much help they'd given him so far.
"I'll only go to a god for help when there are no other options left" he added belatedly, stubborn and surly as always.
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