I believed in you... to do what good Shepherds are supposed to do.
[ Her words cut deep and his expression bleeds, but his voice manages to barely wobble, level and reasoned and heartbroken. ]
How could I ask you to go easy on Grima? How could I ask you to do anything but try to kill him with everything you had? Killing him was the only right thing to do, but me... I couldn't.
[ He laughs once, disbelieving, because he wants to be a master tactician someday. How can he when he couldn't do such a simple thing? ]
And I couldn't ask you to have mercy, because Grima doesn't deserve it. But my mother... she deserves everything. Everything I have. Even if I made no difference. Even if it put me against impossible odds...
[ And the tears begin to roll down his cheeks, because this is the truth: ]
You don't need me. Not the way you needed to kill her.
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[ Her words cut deep and his expression bleeds, but his voice manages to barely wobble, level and reasoned and heartbroken. ]
How could I ask you to go easy on Grima? How could I ask you to do anything but try to kill him with everything you had? Killing him was the only right thing to do, but me... I couldn't.
[ He laughs once, disbelieving, because he wants to be a master tactician someday. How can he when he couldn't do such a simple thing? ]
And I couldn't ask you to have mercy, because Grima doesn't deserve it. But my mother... she deserves everything. Everything I have. Even if I made no difference. Even if it put me against impossible odds...
[ And the tears begin to roll down his cheeks, because this is the truth: ]
You don't need me. Not the way you needed to kill her.