Midnight RPG - Chapter 18.65

Shadaar to Eranon

(Taking place after Shadaar gets back from escorting the Erenlander refugees back to their village).

*Shadaar approaches Eranon with a stern look on his face. He also looks rather disappointedly at Durgaz and Zal'Kazzir*

"Eranon? May I have a word with you privately?"

OOC: I'll assume here that Eranon agrees and I'll get to my point.

*Shadaar leads Eranon away from the group to speak privately*

"You may have noted my dissapointment? Well, here it is. I'm going to speak plainly and truthfully to you."

*Shadaar begins to sigh, and gets an irrated look on his face, then grimaces and shrugs*

"This group saved those poor people, against their better judgement. You were among those that said it was too dangerous a mission. If not for Kyuad being the voice of Morality, I would have left this fellowship to persue those goblinoids and tried to free those people myself. A foolhardy thing to do, I not doubt, but something I feel would have been not only the right thing to do but also the necessary action."

"You found your sister among those we saved. Now, if I may pose a question to you. After refusing to save those people, if you had found out that your sister numbered amongst them, would you have suddenly changed your mind? Or would you have still insisted that the mission would be too dangerous and risky?"

*Shadaar looks intently at Eranon waiting for his response*

*Eranon takes a long time to speak, gathering his thoughts*

"You speak well, Shadaar, and I am humbled by your words. In the end, you were right, and I was acting a coward. I have spent to much time listening to Zal'Kazir, methinks, as I did indeed sound like him. Yet, I do beg for a chance to explain myself. Vrolk is a menace to my people, and has been directly, meliciously responsible for the deaths of thousands, maybe more. He is a traitor to all of my people, he is responsible, in part or in full for the threat facing Three Oaks, where even now, my family dies to protect us. His capture and containment is more important than you, than me, than all of those people, including my sister."

"However, I should have been willing to lay down my life for any of them. And I want you to know that risking my own neck was no part of my concern. If we were to die, and Vrolk be released, or worse yet, KILLED, all we have done is for naught, my cousin would have died for nothing, YOU would have died for nothing. You speak true, Erenlander, and as soon as a plan was presented that gave minimal risk of losing Vrolk, I gladly joined in."

"My shame in it is that I did not join you in the thought to strike out on my own and rescue them all myself, be they my sister or strangers. Yes, had I learned of her presence among the group, I would have acted differently, and I am sorry. In the future, I will consider your counsil with more weight."

"Let me, however, ask you something. If you were faced with an entire army leading captives, would you have done the same thing, taken them all on yourself?"

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