voice;

[finisaeternam]

[There is a shuffling sound, like someone restlessly pacing back and forth in a patch of grass. Then a cold, demanding voice speaks.]

We have been here for weeks now.

What have you lot learned about this world?

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voice

[finisaeternam]

Any act of defiance is worthy of death.

voice

[baldrshand]

Ah. So you'd prefer tyranny.

That never lasts, you know.

voice

[finisaeternam]

[A long-suffering sigh.]

...Indeed.

Known many tyrants, have you?

[To him it's just a word with empty meaning. Growing up he's never known anything other than tyrants, what other type of ruler was there?]

voice

[baldrshand]

Yes. [It comes out rather flatly.] One I saw with my own eyes. He killed his father to seat himself on the throne, and then he tore his own country to pieces within a year and died.

But my homeland has it not so far back in its history, too--an empire ruled by men who made their pact with a dark god and slaughtered anyone who tried to rise against them--it took divine intervention for him to be thrown down, ultimately.