Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"Ihra what?" She asks, confused.

 

"You know, the person inside of your heart?" I ask.

 

"Ihra is inside my heart?" She asks, disturbed.

 

"Yeah. Why do you think Shadow Stephanie and I wanted to go there?" I ask.

 

Pause.
"That makes sense. I still don't want you in there."

 

I start walking the other way, backtracking, and then just walking the opposite direction of the castle.

 

"I don't intend to go back, especially since Katie got traumatised," I say, "Might be why she lashed out..."

 

"Lashed out?"

Eventually, you are approached.
"Whaddaya want?" One calls.

 

"She killed an Anubis out of nowhere. They were being pretty rude to us though..." I say, thinking.

 

"To talk."
I call back.

 

"If a criminal walks into the shadow palace, do you treat them kindly or bring them pain?"

"About?"

 

"If they were a known criminal, the guards would arrest them and I would arrange a sentence from jail time, to torture, to execution depending on the severity of their crime," I say, "I did however torture Katie for three days straight."

I look rather guilty, glancing down at the ground sadly, "It's hard being a Shadow King. It's hard and nobody understands..." I say, crestfallen.

 

"Status. Other tribes. Preferably with your chief."
I quickly explain.

 

"It's even harder when you and reality aren't seeing eye-to-eye. I think I'm still at that point, too."

"The hell do you want our chief to tell you the status of?"

 

"Is it wrong to hurt your friends, even though it's the right thing to do in someone else's eyes?" I ask.

 

"His honest opinion on the other tribes, but I'm really here to give a status update."

 

"I think it's wrong to think that it would be enough."

"What kind of status update?"

 

I sigh, crestfallen.

"I'm going to go spend some time with Artemis." I say sadly, opening a portal to leave.

 

"Wait." Xlentia says.
"I don't think ignoring it is going to help. They have something you want, but you can't wrench it from them, so why not try to restore your reputation and take another shot?"

 

"I've tried, Xlentia. I've tried to show I'm not the bad guy by punishing Katie for what she did. But...if doing something as painful as that, for both Katie and I, isn't enough...I don't know what I can do." I say, sighing and starting to step through the portal.