Through the Looking Glass

[Spicy Serious]

I Remember. 

Time moves fast for a Magi, it’s easy to let things be forgotten in the rapids of time. To let grudges slip, to forget sins, to try to move on to better things. 

My mind has always clung to knowledge. It’s never forgotten what truly mattered. 

The tears of the widows I’ve comforted. The still forms of the heroes who protected them. The children who laughed and played, never knowing how painful their lost protector’s last moments were. 

All I’ve ever been able to recall so clearly is that pain that others seem to let slip away. The pain I grew up surrounded by, the pain the nation I sacrificed eternity for was forged in. 

The pain my friends died to try to stop. The pain I lost even more to.

I tried to take the wisdom of others. To try and bury the past, to embrace the future…

But now the ones who caused so much of it are trying to bury it. To make their sacrifices forgotten, and they have the gall to tell us to smile.

Mother. Please, forgive me as you have before. I failed to defend the seat of your power once again. 

But as long as I draw breath, I will give myself unto you. I will embrace my grief, my hatred, my pain, I will force this hateful world into a better tomorrow.

I will make them remember.