Artifact

Myriad Reality

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I’ve been paying for decades, and it’ll never be enough. You’re right.

@Heroic

Then I'm not the one you need to convince.

Myriad Reality

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No one’s aware of my own responsibility more than me… The impossibility of calming a man blind with rage isn’t a task I’m sure I can manage. In fact, I’ll have you know it hurts a lot to try.

@Heroic

That's a small price to pay compared to all the people you hurt!

Myriad Reality

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I have nothing else. It sounds pathetic coming from the guy who’s been painted as the killer, I suppose, but as someone who watched it all burn as much as he did, I have as much left of our old life as he does, and an equal amount to mourn.

@Heroic

Because you're responsible. Look, it's Roland you're going to have to convince if you want anything to change. Otherwise, I'm going to back him up no matter the cost.

Myriad Reality

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Despite the fact that I did nothing… I regret everything. If I were as strong mentally then, as I am now, I could have contained him. But I was a naive, stupid, inexperienced kid.

@Heroic

And you want Roland to take your word for it.

Myriad Reality

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To not hate me, at least any more than I hate myself. On the hopeful side, to give Ridge a chance, like others have.

@Heroic

You think that a simple sorry makes all of this goes away? Brings back all the people you've killed?

Myriad Reality

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*Frowns*
Not even showing him to you is sufficient enough to be proof. And I don’t want to give him even an inch. He very easily will try to take a mile.

@Heroic

If you're telling the truth, then what do you expect from either of us?

Myriad Reality

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I don’t want to fight. And I don’t want to hurt Roland. But circumstances make it hard to believe, I know. The number of people who ever have, I can count on two hands.

@Heroic

Prove it. Somehow or another.

Myriad Reality

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I hate to even call it an alter ego… But that’s the best thing to call it to make you understand. Maelstrom lives in my head, as an inseparable entity.

@Heroic

That's your excuse? It sounds to me like you haven't kept up and want an easy out.

Myriad Reality

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Maelstrom. That’s what I’ve been trying to say. To both of you.
*Winces, as though in pain*

@Heroic

What, the name of your curse? What do you suggest?

Myriad Reality

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You have to understand… Please understand. Maelstrom is not me. It’s a curse. A curse that’s made everything worse for as long as I’ve had memories.

@Heroic

*Grits my teeth*
Curse or not. Who's responsible for this, then?