The Corrosion of Faith

[Peter "The Owl"]

Peter walks slowly closer to the bleeding woman. "Compassion? The is the usual plee of course, appealing to my better half. A short time ago, that would have worked."

Peter plants his foot on Sephos's stomach, pinning her down, leveling his right weapon on her chest. "I had a better half. Her name was Chastity." He clicks back the hammer. "Then someone killed her."

He pulls the trigger, a single high impact round blasting through Sephos's chest, shattering her crystal soul into a thousand shards.

[Valodya Bassarov]

Bassarov lays in a comatose state, but it somewhat aware of the world around him. He is racked with a deep loss over Kaieka, and refuses to return to a concious state.
He senses that Helene was there earlier, so he sends Lysander a telepathic message, though he doubts the newborn would understand.
I still am not convinced that I am your father, but if I am, you must be twice the person I am. I am so weak and foolish, prone to lust, and imprisoned by its resulting anguish. When you grow up, you must do for this world the many things I was too flawed to do...you must be greater than myself....



I am closing the thread early.....