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“For as long as I am here, walking this realm,. You must be here, as well. If you are to make only one promise, one at all, make this one with me. Only after I am gone, you may do as you wish. But while I breathe, while I wake, while I live, you must do the same. Can you make me that promise?”
“Consider this a warning. I will do unto you unimaginable suffering, if you defy me for the sake of your newfound compassion.”
“You were by far my least favourite. I truly do not know how Zaccheus tolerates you.”
“Ha! As if a man like you would not want the best music in his halls. You are too proud a man to bother with less.”
“I did not imagine your tongue could produce such barbarous retort. You typically keep it so supple and earnest when it is wedged in princes.”
“You are trying to make a violin out to be a blushing maiden on her wedding night! You, if anyone, are the gremlin among us!”
“What an unromantic little gremlin you are. Play the fucking violin!”
“Do not play games with people you have no power over. I am warning you, Zaram. I tolerate you enough for the sake of my father, but not enough to have you near me. Do you understand me?”
“Aside you being the prince, you are a...challenging man to befriend, seemingly.”
“I will never fear you, Lycurgus. Only miss you.”
“I am sick of your benevolence, and your thinking my quest for power was my downfall. I am strong, I have proven myself to be a creature worth fearing.”
“But I have a keen eye for studious, diligent scholars. No doubt you will be an astute learner in time.”
“Master Zaccheus spoke with me after day’s end. I wish you could have heard the way he said my name, Brina, I almost wept. Wept! He corrected my notes and I thought I might faint. Oh, Brina, he’s the most wonderful creature in all of Opes, perhaps even all of Ormr.”
“I do not think such suffering was meant for you, Zaram. How odd of me to say such things, when I wish the worst on all others. But you are not like them, you are a different breed of nobility. A good kind. I should wonder then why you align yourself with men like me.”
“Are you under the assumption I do not admire your ability? I am aware I will never be of noble and just purpose like Zaccheus. But I can be like you. Tormented, ugly and driven mad by power and nothingness. It is no aspiration of mine to be your mirror, Lycurgus, but looking at you and what you have become is as if I am delving into my future.”
“You fear such things and yet admire me. Your irony is comical. But you have time, Regalis, if you would like to not be mad. Proud, yes, and likely one day dead by hubris. But not like me, alive and yet decaying.”