However... just when the man was thinking he might stay with these people a while, tragedy struck. The Scions had been betrayed, and so many of its members wound up killed or injured in the ensuing attack. A once happy bustling place of business and adventure was silent, abandoned. Unsafe. And the man was set adrift.
It was while he searched for a way forward, for allies in other lands, that he discovered one of the Scions... or maybe it's more like the stray Scion discovered him. [His lips curve into a small smile.] I'd never seen anyone throw open doors with such purpose. He was all confidence and direction—at least compared to me—and for the first time, I felt like maybe we had a chance at fixing all of this.
There were still hardships ahead of us, but we took the joy where we found it, and I watched a naive little lordling grow into the finest diplomat the world had ever seen. And he changed me, too. I went from flighty and irresponsible to someone who would walk into the fire again and again for a chance to do the right thing. This boy's perseverance taught me that everyone is deserving of a second chance... even someone who only knew how to mess everything up.
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It was while he searched for a way forward, for allies in other lands, that he discovered one of the Scions... or maybe it's more like the stray Scion discovered him. [His lips curve into a small smile.] I'd never seen anyone throw open doors with such purpose. He was all confidence and direction—at least compared to me—and for the first time, I felt like maybe we had a chance at fixing all of this.
There were still hardships ahead of us, but we took the joy where we found it, and I watched a naive little lordling grow into the finest diplomat the world had ever seen. And he changed me, too. I went from flighty and irresponsible to someone who would walk into the fire again and again for a chance to do the right thing. This boy's perseverance taught me that everyone is deserving of a second chance... even someone who only knew how to mess everything up.
Someone like me...