"He is--was," Kratos corrected as he turned away. It was easier to keep talking if he focused on something inanimate, something that lacked a face, like the dark outline of the stairs in the distance. It made it easier to beat down the spikes of fear and panic that kept flaring up and urging him to abandon this path because he would only find rejection at its end. He'd gone this far, though; he might as well see it to the end, if only to put himself out of his misery. "He was determined to maintain his loyalty at all costs."
He laughed quietly. "But then he fought you, and found that he had been compromised, because he could not choose his former student over his son."
Not even you could bring yourself to fight against such an opponent...
"For months, he could never fully choose one or the other, but by the time he found himself here, his mind was made up. And then you appeared, unaware, and he tried to let things slip back to how they once were, but now...now, he has no choice but to choose. Not" - Kratos spat the word out with disgust - "unless I want to let Landel have his way."
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"He is--was," Kratos corrected as he turned away. It was easier to keep talking if he focused on something inanimate, something that lacked a face, like the dark outline of the stairs in the distance. It made it easier to beat down the spikes of fear and panic that kept flaring up and urging him to abandon this path because he would only find rejection at its end. He'd gone this far, though; he might as well see it to the end, if only to put himself out of his misery. "He was determined to maintain his loyalty at all costs."
He laughed quietly. "But then he fought you, and found that he had been compromised, because he could not choose his former student over his son."
Not even you could bring yourself to fight against such an opponent...
"For months, he could never fully choose one or the other, but by the time he found himself here, his mind was made up. And then you appeared, unaware, and he tried to let things slip back to how they once were, but now...now, he has no choice but to choose. Not" - Kratos spat the word out with disgust - "unless I want to let Landel have his way."