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[ridethelightning]

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...I feel compelled to speak. I don't know why, but I do.

I remembered something else. I watched...I watched my mentor die. He fell in battle, to a sworn enemy. I challenged her upon his fall, but I lost.

If...anyone would like to see me, I will be in my apartment.

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[kaboobya]

That's not a very happy memory to recall. Ah, but isn't that the risk we all take in this place with the crystals we turn in? Sometimes I think it would be nice instead to focus on making new memories here than to remember things that no longer matter to us. It isn't as though we can return to those people, so why should we remember them?

[ridethelightning]

...Huh? Since when have you been so...cynical?

[kaboobya]

Cynical? I'm just being upfront with you. Maybe this is my true nature deep down.

[ridethelightning]

Thinking about it, I don't think that's the case. I think you're simply scared of the unknown.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Jeez, that sounds like one of those old legends you'd hear from a storyteller. You must live a pretty exciting life.

[ridethelightning]

I'm afraid I did. More exciting than I would have liked.

[stinglikeabat]

I want to say something, but I'm at a complete loss for words.

Er. That must have been very hard to watch.

[ridethelightning]

I understand. The thought is appreciated.

...It was. It was like watching my own father be killed fighting for his life.

[stinglikeabat]

I know I'd be beside myself if that ever happened to me!

Do you think you ever got revenge? You're pretty strong these days, right?

[ridethelightning]

...I don't know. I don't know how it ended.

[stinglikeabat]

Oh, right. The amnesia, I'd forgotten about that.

...How are you holding up?

[ridethelightning]

I've been worse. As a veteran, I think I can manage.

[stinglikeabat]

You don't look old enough to be a veteran.

[ridethelightning]

I first set foot on the battlefield as a combatant at the age of fifteen. The war lasted for a year after that.

[stinglikeabat]

Was that when your mentor died?

[ridethelightning]

No. I don't remember how the war ended, but I do know that my mentor's death occurred five years after the war's end.

[stinglikeabat]

So you would have been in your early twenties. Still, I imagine that's a hard sight to see at any age!

[ridethelightning]

It is. Words could not begin to describe the pain I felt upon seeing him struck down.