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𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 🗲 ([personal profile] sparkstrikes) wrote in [personal profile] pumped 2018-11-26 12:43 am (UTC)

Hmph. Not really, no.

[Lightning knew that self-reflection wasn't a thing in his vocabulary long before she walked into that throne room, but that didn't stop her. He might not have deserved to be saved or would have changed given the chance, but there is something else that Caius has the capacity for – something that has the power to change people in the most unimaginable ways. Lightning is living proof of it. His version may be twisted, but it's there whether he wants it to be or not.]

It was love. [Her fingers tighten unconsciously around his.] That's what stopped me. Yeul was the one who asked me to save him... All she wanted was for him to be happy in a new world, but no matter how hard I fought, there was nothing I could do. Her love for Caius tethered him to the Chaos and wouldn't let him leave it.

[Some part of Lightning, deep down, held out hope that he would atone for his sins by living a life that Yeul wanted to. Nothing would erase the damage he'd caused, but it could make him better. If not for his own sake, then for Yeul's.

She and Caius aren't so different...]


I might have been able to find a way, but in the end, I couldn't help him and he didn't want my help. You can't save someone who doesn't want salvation.

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